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Apple CEO 



15 ryear strate^ 
for success 



Four-Color 
Separations 
for Desktop 
Publishers 



CAD Benchmark: 
PC versus Mac 

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Compatibility- 
What Works, 
What Doesn't? 

1987 DJjgfectory 
of 1000 Products 




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Some people never know where 
their next job’s coming from.That’s 
why there’s Microsoft® Works, the 
winner of five major awards— 
including Macworld’s 1987 
and MacUser’s 1986 
Integrated Pivduct of the 
Year awards. 

Microsoft Works is a one-disk 
software program that gracefully 
integrates: 

Word processing, for writing 
memos, reports, presentations. 

A database tool with reporting, 
to keep track of clients, jobs, 
vendors. 

A spreadsheet 
with charting, to 
compute,an^yze, 
interpret, 
and then 
graph 
anything to 
do with 
finance or 
numbers. 

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communica- 
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lets you get stock 
quotes, make travel 
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the country; right over 
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from one to another. And later 
combine work done in each part 
of the program on a single 
printed page. 

This easy exchange of data 
makes jobs go faster and much, 
much easier. (Like form letters 
where you need to combine 
names from the database 
with a memo 






written in the word processor.) 

I^aiTiing Microsoft Works is a 
snap. It starts with a painless, 
step-by-step, computer-based 
training program. Before you 
know it, you know it 

All in Microsoft Works is a 
superb solution for day to day, get- 
it-done problems— an inspiring 
display of convenience, efficiency, 
and utility. 

And of course, it’s a product of 
Microsoft, the preeminent devel- 
oper of programs for the Macintosh! 

If you’re in a business that won’t 
let you stick to one thing, check 
outMicrosoftWorks — theprogram 
that can change jobs as fast as 
you do. 

Microsoft* Works. 

For everyone. • 

For the name oF Uie nearest Microsoft dealer, call (800) 426-9400. In Washington State 
and Maska,(206) 882-8088. In Canada, call (416) 673-7638’ 

Microsoft is a registered trademark oF Microsoft Corjx)ration. Macintosh is a trademark 
oF .\pple Computer, Inc. 




MACVVOKU) 



On the Cover 
A man with plans: 
Apple dxtirmanjohn 
Sculley discusses his 
vision of Apple in the 
tu enty -first cent toy. 
Seep, 73 (Photo by 
Cynthia Moore. ) 



November 1987 



The Macintosh ^"'Magazine 



Departments 

Mac Bulletin 

Late-bre^iking news. 

David Bunnell 
Letters 

Commentary/Jerry Borrell 
Contributors Notes 
Steven Levy 
Wrbatim 

Apple CEG John Scu| ley’s 15-yea 
strategy M success. 

New Products 

A quick look at new Mac software, 
hardware, and acces.sories. 

How To/Quick Tips 

Inside W>7/eA'dw»’vS dictionary a 
Cricket Graph hint, an ILxcel macro, 
tiling in Word, and more. 

How To/Getting Started with Music 

Sequencers, patches, MIDI, and other 
Mac musical mysteries explained. 

HowTo/Ihsights on QuarkXPress 

Desktop publishing li^xs. 

Mac System Tools 

A buyer’s guide to Mac cooling 
devices. 

Updates 

The latest software upgrade news. 



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321 



Macworld News 

■ Take It with You Colby’s new por- 
table Mac, 

■ Color Printers^ Now Getting color 
from screen to paper. 

■ The Finder in a DA Finder func- 
tions under the Apple. 

Plus^ how works with ani- 
mations, a new color paint program, 
magazine-quality photos, and more. 



333 Where to Buy 

information on products in this issue. 



344 Best-Sellers 



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November 1987 



Features 







Macworld 3 



166 



Mouseballs 

Roundup of mouse accessories. 



108 Just How Compatible Is Compatible? 

Which of your favorite programs will 
crash a Mac II? 

114 Benchmark: Mechanical CAD 

Three Mac programs compared with 
AutoCAD on the IBM PC.^dvat’s the 
best design tool? 

122 Excel Macro Treasury 

Macros for the taking. 

126 Beyond Black and White 

Make high-quality four-color 
separations on a monochrome Mac. 

136 What’s in a Window? 

Today’s workstation windowing 
environments foretell the future of 
the Mac operating system. 

171 Business Buyer’s Guide 

One thousand products! A classified 
compendium of Mac hardware and 
software. 



Reviews 

148 Four of a Kind 

liyperDrive FX/40, Jasmine Direct Drive 50, 
MacBottom MD45, Rodime 45 Plus. 

150 Gateway to the Future 

Neiway NIOOOA Mac-lo-mainframe communicaiit)ns. 

151 High Performance 

Radius Accelerator 68020/68881 board for the SE. 

1 52 Money Worries? 

MaCiMofiey personal hnancial manager. 

1 54 Four- Wall Challenge 

iMacRaquethall sports simulation. 

155 Solid State 

TDl Modiilch2 development environment. 

1 56 Works Writing Enhancer 

Microsoft’s WorksPhts Spell 

156 Behind the Scenes 

StriptwriteriWm and theatrical scripting. 

158 A Little Byte Music 

Studio Session composition software. 

159 Macro-Making for the Mac 

Save steps with AutoMac II. 

160 Baby Talk 

First Shapes, MacRohots K-12 
educational software. 

161 It Only Hurts When 1 Stop Laughing 

Bureaucracy^ misadvx^nture at Mappitec. 

161 Mac-Mainframe Solution 

pclink terminal emulator. 

162 Move Over, Dollars and Sense 

In-House Accountant financial 
management and accounting. 

164 Shareware and Public Domain 
Game Awards 

The unofficial best. 

165 On Time 

Time Loy^ger Mac stopwatch. 





MACWORLD 




David Bunnell 

Ediior-in-Chief 

Jacqueline Poitier 

Director/Ari and Design 

Jerry Borrell 

Editor 

Christopher Burg 

Art Director 



Editorial 

Managing Editor: Charles Barrett 
Senior Associate Editor: Adrian Mello 
(Features) 

Senior Technical Editor: David Ushijima 
Associate Editors: Gil Davis (News), 
Nancy E. Dunn (Departments), 

Janet McCandless (Reviews), Ikita Meng 
(East Coast Editor) 

Assistant Editors: Eileen Drapiza 
(New Products), Valerie L. Kuleiz, 

Jane Digas, Joe Matazzoni 
Senior Copy Editor: ]u\\e Ericksen 
Copy Editors: Cathy E. Abes, 

William Freais, Felicity O’Meara 
Editorial Assistant: Mark I luiiow 
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Otto Waldorf 

Editorial Secretary: Sharon Roe 
Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, 
Jim Meid, Steven Levy, Erfert Nielson, 

Lon Poole, Charles Seiter, 

Franklin Tessler, Bruce Webster 

Harry Miller 

Corporate Editor 
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Editorial Director 
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Editorial Administrator 

Assistant to the Editorial Director: 
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Art and Design 

Designer: Susan Howard 
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Production 

Director: Herbert Linden 
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Editorial Production Manager: 

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Production Editor. Susan M. Ford 
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Lead lypesetter: Mark L. Duran 
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Research 

Director: Cheryl Woodard 
Manager: Gary L. Rocchio 
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Analyst: Ray Petsche 
Report Coordinator: Steven F. York 

Corporate Development 

Publicist: Shirley Gines 
Special Projects: yeiire)’ S. Glines 
Administrative Assistant: 

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Group Publisher 



Marketing and Advertising Sales 

Director of Advertising Sales: 

Larry Hilderbrand 
Senior Account Manager! 

No. California (San Francisco): 

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Western Advertising Manager! 
Northwest: Patricia Navone 
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No. California (San Jose): 

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Circulation 

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Promotion Coordinators: 

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Adm inistration 

Director: ]imex D. McGinnis 
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Shelly Ginenthal 

Technical Manager: Nancy Canning 
Assistant to the President: 

Christina W( Spence 
Assistant to the Group Publisher: 
Loretta Giglione 



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PCW Communications, Inc. 

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Chairman 

Bartlett R. Rhoades 

President & CEO 

John Griffin 

Vice President 

Herbert Linden 

Vice President 

James E. Martin 

Vice President 

Jacqueline Poitier 

Vice President 

Cheryl Woodard 

Vice President 

Andrew Fluegelman 

1943-1985 
Founding Editor 

November 1987 
Volume 4, Number 11 

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Ix’cau.se it’s fun. 

“UpTime comes in tlie mail every 
month. 1 like the gtimes. Dad likes 
the games, but he says he gets it 
for the business stuff. My .sister 
thinks she’s a genius so she gets 
into all the educational parts. 

“Mom laughs a lot. She .says it 
makes her happy to see us happy. 
Mothers go for that kind of stuff. 

“Dad always brings his briefcase 
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know the nights when UpTime 
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The hottest sport 
on a court - 
the hottest game 
a Macintosh'“ can handle. 

Even if you’ve never been on 
a racquetball court, you’ll spark to 
the excitement of this cliallenging 
simulation. 

MacRacquetball turns your 
Macintosh screen into a full perspec- 
tive 3-D display of court, players and 
ball. With the mouse, you have com- 
plete control of player position, ball 
placement, ball speed and shots. 

Two people can play the same game 
over AppleTalk® or modem. 

Superb graphics give Mac- 
Racquetball completely convincing 
realism. There are more than 1000 
frames of ultra high speed digitized 
animation. It’s one racquetball court 
that’s always open when you’re ready 
to play. 



Enthusiastic players 
everywhere have made 
MacGolf the best selling 
Macintosh game ever. 

MacGolf puts you in the picture, 
a full perspective 3-D simulation of 
realistic golf action. You match your 
skills against fairways, roughs, bun- 
kers, water hazards, sand traps 
and trees. 

MacGolf gives you a player’s 
eye view of the course, in any direc- 
tion, and an aerial overview of each 
hole. You have complete control of 
your position, ball placement, ball 
speed and direction, and selection of 
all 14 clubs. Digitized grapliics and 
sounds add to the excitement. 

MacGolf is so close to tlie real 
thing it will improw you:' golf game. 
And by the time you’ve reached the 
eighteenth hole you’ll know you’ve 
been in a real contest. 



PCAI 

©1987, PCAI/Practical Computer Applications. Incorporated 612/427-4789 
Macintosh and AppleTalk are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. 

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When you have 
the best selling Macintosh 
game in the world, 
what do you do for an encore? 

Here’s new turf for adventurous 
MacGolfers. These are courses to 
conquer for mouse wielding pros 
who have taken tlie measure of the 
original MacGolf courses. 

If you liked MacGolf, you’ll love 
what MacCourses brings to the 
screen. Four new 18 hole, par 72 
courses: Cedar Creek, Golden 
Sands, Thunder Ridge and PCAI 
International. The fairways, traps, 
hazards, and putting greens 
of MacCourses are in a whole 
new league. 

If you thought MacGolf was 
good training for the outdoor game, 
MacCourses should turn you into a 
pro. Get MacCourses now, use it 
when you’re ready - you never know 
when you’ll need tlie challenge. 





Now check ours. 



THINK Technologies proudly presents InBox,'“ 
winner of the MacUser Editors’ Choice Award for 
1986 as the best new desktop communications 
package. The InBox family of products can be used 
on AppleTalk '"and NetBIOS LANs to transfer 
spreaclsheet, word processing, database, graphics, 
publishing and other files from Mac to Mac, Mac 
to PC, PC to Mac and PC to PC. You can also create, 
send and receive memos and phone messages. 

All while running other applications. Plus, new 
Version 2.0 supports multiple message centers for 
laiger networks and no longer requires a dedicated 
Mac. Now you can share information, communi- 
cate more and meet less. For more information 
or the name of the dealer nearest you, call 
1-617-863-5595. Or write to us at me address below. 



THINK Technologies, Inc. 

420 Bedford Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173 
InBox is a trademark of THINK Technologies, Inc. 

Macintosh is a trademnrkof McIntosh Liborator>', Inc. and is used 
by Apple Computer, Inc. with its express permission. 

AppleTalk is a trademark of Apple Computer. 

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You’ve heard about them. You’ve 
read about them. By now, you’ve probably 
even seen them. 

Our latest leaps in technology the 
new Macintosh” SE and Macintosh II 
personal computers, have been getting 
their share of press. 

But to add to what >'ou may already 
kno\y we’d like to tell >ou more about tlieir 
mostpowerfi.il feature: expandability 



It’s something we made possible 
by adding expansion slots. So you can 
easily customize your Macintosh to meet 
the aemands of any business. 

You can, for example, set up a sys- 
tem that’s perfect for major-league number 
crunching. Or add features to give >x)u even 
greater power for Apple Desktop Publish- 
ing, like displays as big as 21 inches. 

The SE sports one expansion slot. 



While the Macintosh II takes the idea of 
expansion to the extreme- with six 32-bit 
NuBus slots. Which have the good sense to 
configure themselves, and require you to 
do nothing more than plug in the options 
of your choice 

Such as an 80286 co-processor card 
that lets you run programs written for 
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rom a palette of over l6 million colors. 

The new Macintosh computers are 
)uilt to be customized in other ways, too. 

You can set up your SE witn up 
0 four megabytes of memory so it has 
he power to run the most sophisticated 
)rograms. And confi^re the II with up 
0 eight megabytes of nemory on the 
nain boaro, or a walloping 1.5 gigabytes 
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As for storage, there’s plenty With 
either computer, you gpt the option of an 
internal hard disk. Or an external one that 
can store up to 80 megabytes. 

You can also choose between two 
keyboards. One of which has 15 hinction 
keys that come in handy when delving 
into special applications. 

And as you might expect, we’ve 
done more than just give you a very good 



Nray to build the Macintosh of your dreams. 

We’ve also arranged to make sure 
you have the perfect workshop: an author- 
ized Apple' dealer* 

Where you can get some expert 
assistance choosing your options. 

So all you have to do is stop 
in. And get to work. 

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Mac Bulletin 



It’s the Future, 
and It’s Free 

^ If you launch the pro- 
gram on the free Mac disk 
from General Motors Huick 
Division, you’ll see a cross 
section of a motor “run” right 
on your Mac’s screen-at a 
speed usually reserved for 
mcwies. 

This animated advertise- 
ment, for which General Mo- 
tors has received over 60,000 
orders, also features a moving 
suspension and a rotating su- 
percharger. Other portions 
of the interactive program, 
which is called a Soft Ad, re- 
spond to your choices by sug- 
gesting which Buick model 
will best meet your needs. 

Soft Ads have been jointly 
develo|:)ed by SoftAd and 
13eck-Tech, which also mar- 
kets an animation program 
called MacMories that lets 
Macintosh users create “mov- 
ies” using Hasy3D, 

MacPaint. (Images can 
also be created using a video 
camera or VCR. ) The frames 
can be seciuenced, rese- 
cjuenced, played back, and 
strung together to make long- 
er movies. 

l-ntil recently, this “desktop 
television” technology was 
available only on systems 
costing $100,000 or more. But 
the Macintosh-especial ly the 
Mac II -will be used exten- 
sively for such applications as 
preparing video programs 
and commercials. 

Is there a future for Soft 
Ads or desktop television? See 
for N'ourself by ordering the 
free Buick Dimension disk. 
Call 800/87-BLllCK between 
8 a.m. and 5 p.m., EST 



Printer Magic 

^ Orange Micro is offering 
a $99 printer cable, called the 
Grappler, that it says will con- 
nect the Macintosh to almost 
any parallel printer-without a 
change in software. This 
means many well-known 
printers, such as Epson, 
Okidata, and Panasonic, can 
emulate an Apple ImageWYiter 
II (including color printing on 
many printer models). 

The Grappler converts Mac 
.serial output into the parallel 
input of many dot matrix 
printers, using circuitry con- 
tained in an enlarged con- 
nector head that plugs into 
the printer. The cable also 
works with the Apple lie or 
IIGS, and it comes with a one- 



^ Most of us tend to have 
an unjustified faith in the in- 
vincibility of electronic equip- 
ment, de.spite the fact that just 
about every Macintosh user 
has experienced some kind of 
hardware or software indiges- 
tion. When the machine on 
your desk fails and all those 
files on your hard disk be- 
come inaccessible, what’s tlie 
next step? Reliable tape drives 
and automatic network back- 
up utilities sound like just tlie 
ticket. But though they’re in 
sight, they’re probably not 
going to be available for a 
while. In the meantime? Why, 
(groan) it's back to backing 
up on floppies. 

Without the help of some 
kind of utility, managing regu- 
lar backup with measly 800K 
floppy disks becomes a monu- 



mental task when you’re talk- 
ing about 20- to 3()0MB hard 
disks. Fortunately, there’s a 
program called DiskFit 1.3 
from SuperMac Softw^are that 
performs documents-only 
and incremental backups. 
Back up your System Folder 
and applications using the 
normal Mac copy function, 
and then use DiskFit to back 
up your documents on a daily 
or w'eekly basis. It's a back-up 
strategy that’s easy to manage. 

DiskFit 1.3 is available from 
SuperMac for $74.95; a net- 
work version costs $395. 

PC Experience 
Pays Off 

^ Tecmar is taking advan- 
tage of its expertise as a lead- 
er in tape backup systems for 
the MS-DOS world. It has re- 
leased the QT-Mac40 40MB 
tape backup, which relies on 
the QIC-100 recording stan- 
dard for high-level error 
correction. 

Tecmar ’s new Apple Prod- 
ucts Division has a series of 
other products under devel- 
opment, including an expan- 
sion chassis for the SE and the 
Mac II. This external box will 
provide extra slots and thus 
the ability to install additional 
floppy drives, hard disks, and 
tape backup systems. Tecmar 
plans to supply graphics and 
multifunction boards for the 
new^ machines, as well as 
boards dedicated to .scientific 
data acquisition and industrial 
control and monitoring. Tec- 
mar expects Mac Ils to be 
used in growing numbers in 
the latter two areas. 



year w^arranty. 

Backup, the 
Easy Way 



Common Problems 

^ IlVIl :G (Berkeley Macin- 
tosh User Group) members 
call the group’s hotline .sever- 
al hundred times a w^eek. Vol- 
unteer consultants find that 80 
to 90 percent of the calls 
touch on the same 20 or .so 
que.stions. 

Right now^ they’re getting 
calls from Macintosh SE (mn- 
ers w'ho find their computer 
isn't working correctly after 
they’ve copied a number of 
di.sks to their internal hard 
drive. Many of iho.se disks 
contain unin.stalled Sy.stems 
and Finders that can unex- 
pectedly take over from the 
startup Sy.stem. The .solution 
is to go into a disk that’s going 
to be copied to the internal 
hard disk and .select only doc- 
uments that don’t contain a 
System or l-inder. 

BMUG al.so urges its callers 
to attempt to .solve their file 
problems with a sharew'are 
program called FileFixer, 
which corrects many I IFS dif- 
ficulties. A copy of FileFixer 
can be found on many bulle- 
tin boards and in user group 
libraries. 

Protecting Your 
Files 

► Over half the Macin- 
toshes now' sold are u.sed in 
situations w'here files are .sen 
.siiive or confidential. Protect- 
ing .Mac documents can be 
difficult, .since a file can often 
be downloaded from a com- 
puter or netw'ork in ju.si 
.seconds. 

To .solve this problem, .Su- 
perMac’s Sentinel program 

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c|uickly encrypts files using an 
algorithm that makes de- 
ciphering very difficult, if not 
impossible. Even if a docu- 
ment does go astray, the 
scrambling makes it virtually 
useless. 

.Ve/7//>7<?/ encrypts files indi- 
vidually or in sets. One pass- 
word locks or unlocks the 
files. Locked files appear as 
locked icons on the desktop. 
For more information, call Su- 
perMac in Mountain View, 
California, at 415/964-8884. 

Goodbye, 

Mac 512KE 

► Apple has quietly ceased 
manufacturing the Macintosh 
512KE. Not even a press release 
marked the passing of the 
once-heralded enhanced ver- 
sion of the 512K, which was in- 
troduced in April 1986. 

The decision was prompted 
by diminished demand, follow- 
ing the introduction of the SE. 

Many of the 512KE’s features 
-such as a 124 k operating sys- 
tem, 800K internal drive, and 
SCSI port-are still included in 
the 1MB Mac Plus, which now 
becomes Apple’s entry-level 
Macintosh computer. 



Your Best Stacks 

► Send a disk of your best 
HyperCard stacks to: News 
Editor, Macworld, 501 Second 
St., San Francisco, CA 94107. 
Wt’ll pay $25 for every entry 
selected for a new monthly 
item, “Your Best Stacks.” 

Please tell us how you devel- 
oped your stack, describe its 
features and who would use 
it, and let us know how read- 
ers call obtain more informa- 
tion. Well also need to Icnow 
if it s free, shareware, or a 
commercial product. 



The Big Apple 

► Look for Macintosh com- 
puters to act more and more 
like minis and mainframes. 
Their high-end capabilities 
will come after Apple intro- 
duces its UNIX-like operating 
system, and the up- 
graded software that will 
follow. 

One of these potential 
products is Sybase, a high-vol- 
ume, high-performance rela- 
tional database that now 
works on networked worksta- 
tions from DEC and Sun Mi- 
crosystems. A Mac version of 
Sybase would allow Macin- 
tosh software developers to 
design databases that run on 
the kind of extensive distrib- 
uted networks typically found 
in large corporations and gov- 
ernment agencies. 

The likelihood of such a 
Mac database was recently 
heightened by Apple’s minor- 
ity investment in Sybase of 
Berkeley, California. 



Documentation 

► Although Apple has final- 
ly released MultiFinder, many 
Macintosh enthusiasts may 
still want to use its precursor. 
After all, Servant requires less 
memory, allows you to switch 
instantly from one application 
to another, performs desktop 
tasks faster and more conve- 
niently-and it’s free through 
user groups and bulletin 
boards. 

New documentation about 
Servant's 56 features is now 
available from writer Scott 
Kronick of Berkeley, Califor- 
nia. The 92-page manual in- 
cludes four tutorial chapters 
and a reference chapter that 
indexes features by screen 
shots and by topic. 

Interspersed throughout 
are comments from Servant 
author Andy Hertzfeld, who 



talks about how the program 
works and w'hat makes it fun. 
For instance, Hertzfeld wrote 
Servant in such a way that any 
MacPaint or ThunderScan 
document could become the 
background for the deslctop. 
More functional features in- 
clude automatic printing of 
multiple documents, shrink- 
ing or expanding the size of 
icons, creating custom icons, 
speaking the names of files, 
and displaying how^ memory 
is utilized. 

To obtain a copy of Servant: 
A New Shell for the Macin- 
tosh, send a $10 check or 
money order to Scott Kronick, 
1442-Aminut St. #278, 
Berkeley, C A 94709. 



► Aldus Corporation offers 
its PageMaker desktop pub- 
lishing programs and services 
at reduced rates for qualifying 
Macintosh user groups. 

Groups can purchase a sin- 
gle copy of PageMaker 2.0a 
for $100 instead of the full 
$495 retail price. Along with 
product discounts, qualified 
user groups can enroll in Al- 
dus's Extended Technical Sup- 
port Service, which includes 
free upgrades and five hours 
of technical support through a 
toll-free 800 number. Groups 
will also receive Aldus’s bi- 
monthly customer newsletter. 
The Desktop Publisher, and 
quarterly technical journal, 
The Aldus File, 

To qualify your group, send 
a copy of your newsletter, a 
letter on the group’s letter- 
head ordering the Macintosh 
version oi PageMaker 2.0a, 
and a check for $100. Send to: 
Aldus Customer Relations, 411 
First Ave. S #200, Seattle, WA 
98104. For more information 
call 206/628-2320. 



AppleLinking 

Everyone? 

► Apple dealers and Macin- 
tosh user groups have had ac- 
cess to an easy-to-u.se E-mail 
and bulletin board system in 
the form of Apple’s own Ap- 
plelmk, which offers icons 
and menus just like other 
Macintosh programs. 

But for the rest of us, life on 
the phone lines hasn’t been 
so easy. We’ve often been 
overloaded by having to re- 
member commands, pick de- 
fault settings, and go through 
a whole bunch of other DOS- 
like incongruities. 

Now we can have simplicity 
in communications through a 
new program called Desktop 
Express, which was jointly de- 
veloped by Dow Jones, Apple 
Computer, and MCI Mail. 

Desktop Express offers 
icons and pull-down menus, 
transmission of both text and 
graphics, offline creation and 
answering of E-mail, an ad- 
dress book, and integration 
with the electronic mail func- 
tions of MCI Mail (which also 
offers hard-copy deliveries for 
people who don’t have 
computers). 

'frade-ins for Color 
Monitors 

► Swamped with orders 
for its new AppleCoIor high- 
resolution RGB monitor, Ap- 
ple has instituted a 90-day 
“please be patient” program. 
Owners of Mac II mono- 
chrome monitors purchased 
before October 31, 1987, can 
exchange them for new color 
monitors. In order to receive 
full credit toward the pur- 
chase of a color monitor, your 
monochrome monitor must 
be turned in to an Apple- 
authorized dealer between 
January 1 and March 31, 1988. □ 



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LOS ANGELES TIMES: 



“The program is more sophisticated and easier to use 
than any. . . on either the PC or the Mad’ 



MACWORLD: 



“. . . brings together the best traits of every Mac 
communications program!’ 



INFOWORLD: 



“MicroPhone is the easiest communications package 
we’ve seen!’ 



With reviews like these 
who needs advertising? 



They say the best advertising is word of 
mouth. So we’re reprinting some of the multi- 
tude of words that have already been said 



about Microphone communications software 
for the Macintosh. 

And what they’re saying, universally, is 
that Microphone —created by Dennis Brothers 
— has far outdistanced all its predecessors. 
That for the novice, MicroPhone is the sim- 
plest telecom software ever devised. That for 
the expert, MicroPhone is the most powerful. 

On-line 
for the lazy. 

MicroPhone gives you the means to create 
infinitely elaborate macro (automated) rou- 
tines with infinite simplicity. Its powerful script 
language is written in plain English, and it 
also features a recording mode that watches, 
saves, and repeats what you do. So no 



pro^mming skills are required. 

The upshot is that MicroPhone win sav 
you time, nassle, and on-line fees by auto- 



mating virtually every operation you now 



have to key by hand. Log on procedures. File 
transfers. And, for a good example, E-mail 
retrieval routines. 

At a single command from you, Micro- 
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ID number and password. Navigate its way 
through the labyrinth to your mailbox. Check 
for mail. Log off if there is none. And if there 
is. Microphone will collect, print, and save all 
messages to your disk. Then, politely log off. 



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Anything else you need to do, from collect- 
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Since MicroPhone is not copy 
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The Challenge of Hypermedia 




llllllllll Just as desktop 
publishing opened 
a Pandora's box of 
ungainly graphic 
design, will 
HyperCard unleash 
the programming 
demon in us? 



The whole notion of hypermedia has been 
on my mind for a long time. 1 began to re- 
ally think about it seriously, though, at Mac- 
world Expo in Boston this past summer. 
That’s when Apple introduced HyperCard, 
the new software created by Apple Fellow' 
Bill Atkinson and now' included with every 
Macintosh. 1 was amazed at people's 
reactions. 

HyperCard was greeted variously as 
“the greatest thing since Mom and apple 
pie and the Mac,” “the most important 
development since the Macintosh w^as in- 
vented,” and “the next step in personal 
computing.” So 1 feel w'e ow'e it to our- 
selves to give the wiiole concept of hyper- 
media its semiannual checkup-a sort of 
hyperexamination. 

Several personal-computer wizards 
have created different forms of hypermedia 
over the years. The w^rd hypertext w^as 
first coined by visionary Ted Nelson back in 
1965, when he was searching for a term to 
describe nonsequential writing on screen. 
Mouse inventor Doug Engelbart w^as also a 
prophet of the hypertext idea. 

A couple of years ago Alan Boyd, presi- 
dent of OWL International in Bellevue, 
Washington, actually developed a working 
hypertext product called Guide. We used 
Guide at FOX' Communications to create 
the w\)rld's first hypertext magazine when 
we did an issue o( Macworld on disk early 
this year. 

Another hypertext product in this hy- 
permedia family was created for the IBM 
PC and the Atari ST around that time. It’s 
called Zoornracks and w^as produced by 
Paul Meckel’s company, Quick\dew Systems, 
in Palo Alto, California. 

But none of these efforts seemed to 
get very far. 

Now^ Apple comes along hyping 
HyperCard for every Mac, and suddenly 
it’s the greatest thing that ever happened 
to personal computers. People say it 
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As Ted Nelson likes to say, “The reac- 
tion to any new idea is first, Tt isn’t true’; 
then Tt isn’t new^’; then ‘We knew it all 
the time.”' 

So what about HyperCard? In Apple 
president and CEO John Scul ley’s w'ords, 
it s a “new' w'ay to organize information.” 

It’s not a traditional database with a hier- 
archical structure. Rather, it allow\s you to 
organize text, pictures, and sound by asso- 
ciation-by context. The same way we orga- 
nize information in our minds. 

When 1 first saw' it, it seemed w'onder- 
ful. Just w'hat I alw'ays wanted. So why was 
I also nagged by the thought that Hyper- 
Card was for the birds? 

It took a conversation with an old 
friend of mine, Nelson Winkles, to figure 
it out. Nelson and 1 go back to Persona! 
Computing magazine, w'here I was the 
publisher and he was the editor. He’s been 
a brilliant and iconoclastic commentator 
on technology for more than 20 years. He 
pinpointed the fundamental problem with 
HyperCard by telling me a story that illus- 
trates it perfectly. 

Back in 1963, he worked on a project 
to create a navigating system for satellites. 
NASA needed a series of landmarks that 
would be easy for a crew' to sp<^t, such as 
isolated islands, volcanoes, or lakes. Nelson 
and his project team were trying to find in- 
formation about an island called Islote Pel- 
ado, off the coast of Peru. They had found 
it on aeronautical charts and needed to 
know' its characteristics. 

They needed to find out, for example, 
if the size of the island changed a lot with 
the tides, what color the island w'as, and 
whether the vegetation changed. Was 
there a different spectral output in different 

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seasons, and what was the weather like? 
Nelson couldn't find out anything. Even the 
Peruvian consulate couldn’t help. 

They finally went to the Department 
of Systematic Biology at Stanford. The de- 
partment had just been moved, and its 
books were all piled up at random, along 
with lots of stuffed animals. It was an exotic 
situation, but all of the usual library search- 
ing and referencing systems were sus- 
pended. Nelson and his team were explain- 
ing their dilemma when the librarian 
said, “Here, try this.” 

“It was a book called Birds of the 
Americas^ Nelson said with a smile. 
“Somehow it had clicked in her mind that 
we might be able to find something in 
that book.” 

So they rummaged through it and 
found a passage about Islote Pelado. The 
author had landed there in 1924, and his 
crew had had quite a time because the is- 
land had cliffs all around it, and there was 
no beach. Well, that told Nelson the island 
didn’t change much in size. 

The crew had finally climbed onto the 
chalky-white land, but they were disap- 
pointed because there was only about one 
load of guano from it. It was hardly w'orth 
the effort. So Nelson learned the island 
was guano-colored and that there wasn’t 
much vegetation. 

It turned out everything they needed 
to know could be figured out from that 
book. But the interesting thing is that the 
author thought the book was about birds. 
The publisher thought it was about birds. 
The person who did the index thought it 
was about birds. Nobody in the world 
thought it was about islands except Nelson 
and his team. And the only way they hap- 
pened to make use of it was that a librarian 
liad leafed through the book one day and 
then thought to show' it to them. 

The moral of Nelson’s story? 

If the person w4io designs the index 
thinks the book is about birds, you’ll never 
find out it’s about islands. Unless you run 
into the right librarian. 

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someone wiio doesn’t know' how' your 
mind w'orks. There’s no general solution 
for this problem, just steps along the w'ay 
until this stuff is truly content-addressable 
by anyone.” 

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I do think HyperCard is a good step 
fopA'ard because it legitimizes the whole 
concept of hypermedia. I just don’t think 
it’s the be-ali, end-all package-at least not 
yet. It’s only one manifestation of hyper- 
media. I think, for example, that Guide 
should be a tool within HyperCard. So 
should Zoomracks. Both Gtdde and 
Zoomracks can be easier to use when 
you're working with a huge amount of data. 
With HyperCard, you’re restricted to the 
size of the screen, or “card,” so you have to 
divide the information into different cards. 
Zoomracks has card-.scrolling capability 
that lengthens your view to 252 lines. 

Furthermore, the reference marks, or 
“buttons,” in Guide are related to the con- 
text of the information itself. In HyperCard 
they relate to the position of the informa- 
tion. So if you move a paragraph in Guide, 
the button moves with the paragraph. 

That’s how it should be. But in HyperCard, 
the buttons aren’t linked to the text- 
they’re linked to a position on the .screen. 

If you attach a button to a particular word 
and then go back and edit that line, the but- 
ton ends up over a different word. That’s 
wrong. The button should be linked to a 
concept. 

On the other hand, HyperCard ex- 
cites me because it has real potential to be- 
come a bona fide hypermedia vehicle. In 
my opinion, the most important aspect of 
HyperCard is that it could be the link be- 
tween personal computers and video. 

It could be the much-promi.sed, long- 
awaited, and passionately predicted prod- 
uct that will finally make the personal com- 
puter a genuine communication tool, not 
ju.st a processor. It could be the window on 
the worlds of text, video, and sound. 

Of course, there will be flak. Just as 
desktop publishing ushered in a wave of 
ungainly graphics design, HyperCard wall 
probably unleash wild and reckless bike 
gangs of programmers who will criss-cross 
the hyperhighways of personal computing, 
leaving the potholes and debris of incom- 
patibility in their waike. 

But I have faith that we will ultimately 
find our w^ay I am confident that one day, 
for example, w'e will have compatible hy- 
permedia that will run on the IBM PC or 
the Macintosh or the Apple II or on any ma- 
chine of your choice. W'e all have to push 
for compatibility becau.se it w ill make the 
w hole personal computer proposition that 
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If you buy the Macintosh SE'“for its 
expandability, then at some point you re 
going to confront the next logical ques- 
tion: what's the best way to expand it? 

And that will lead you to a conclu- 
sion that's logical to the point of being 
foregone; HyperCharger 020.'" 

This is the enhancement board that 
sets standards for the others. 

It will let you run most Macintosh 
software up to four times faster It 
can contribute an additional megabyte 



of RAM memory and maybe easily up- 
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It's equipped with an expansion 
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All of which makes HyperCharger 
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first such add-on you almost have to 



find a logical reason not to add on. 

Of course, we fully expect you to be 
the judge of that. And you can make 
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InsDsH^ fc®rs who find 
themsBlves wishing there was 
a personal printer that lived 
up to their personal computer 
Including the executives, 
entrepreneurs, academics and 
other professionals looking 
for an affordable entree into the 
world of desktop publishing. 

General Computer presents 
the reassuring paradox you see 
illustrated on these pages: the first 
affordable laser printer that prints 
like it costs thousands more. 



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INTRODUCING THE 
PERSONAL LASERPRINTER. 



As the documents shown here 
demonstrate, the General Computer 
Personal LaserPrinter'“ (PLP'“) con- 
cedes nothing in printing capability to 
systems selling for twice its price. 

If that still seems hard to believe, 
consider this. Until now, anyone 
who bought a laser printer was also 
buying a computer Because laser 
printers have always needed a proces- 
sor memory and other expensive 
hardware to create a printable page. 

Our laser printer on the other 
hand, eliminates a great deal of this 
expensive hardware in favor of ingen- 
ious software. 

Software that allows the printers 
imaging to be performed by the 



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This arrangement also means the 
PLP is much more com- 
pact than other laser print- 
ers. (An almost diminutive 
16 "x 1616 "x 9 ") 

And having fewer 
parts, much less likely to 
need repairs. 



THE PROOF IS IN THE PRINTING. 

As you can see, a case could 
easily be made for buying the PLP 
on economics alone. But that would 
be selling it short. 

Because the ultimate measure 
of any printer is how well it prints. 



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July 1987 





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to Return to Gold? 



There’s probably no belter 
hedge againsi inflation. Gold 
is //le internationally recog- 
nized medium of exchange. 
It’s completely portable. 

And, unlike paper money, it 
has inherent value. But is U 
for you? 

In times of economic or 
politiail lurmoil people turn 
again and again to gold. 

'Phai’s what makes gold 
prices go up in times ot 
inflation. And why gold 
moves up when world peace 
is threatened. 

As an investor, you have 
five basic wavs lo purchase 
gold. 



1. Gold futures, like all 

futures contracts, are basic- 
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tions intended for .sophisti- 
cated tradeni. 

2. Gold slocks. Shares in 
mines arc traded on all major 
exchanges. Some, especially 
South African mine shares. 

pay substantial dividends. 

(This is due to the vola- 

tile political situation — 

there.) 

3. Gold bullion 



F«b. 



•as 'B6 '87 



can be bought al all large 
brokerage houses. These 
nrms also store and insure 
bullion. 

continued on 



Picking Your 

Stockbroker 



The Rising 
Fortunes of the 
Humble Apple 

Consumer demand has mush 
roomed in recent months for 
fresh fruit and produce. 

What arc the best plays in 
this trend for investors? 

Dr. Vic Scallionc, of the 
Washington Slate Depart- 
ment of Agriculture says 



Avoiding Wall 
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. . And a draft mode that lets you 

rapidly print out works-in-progress for 
editing and revision by others. 

Then, once all the revisions are 
complete, the PLP quietly provides ex- 
traordinary finished output 

Near-typeset quality presenta- 
tions, newsletters, memos and 
reports produced with software like 
Microsoft's Word and Aldus' 
PageMaker® All printed with a new 
generation of laser technology 
that turns out richer contrasts than 
ever before. 



If you happen to l>e picking a 

stockbroker for the tlRi 

lime, a good way to begin is 
with some solid rccommen- 
dalions. 

Ask vour lawyer, account- 
ani, or banker for the name 

of a stockbroker, or a 

brokerage firm, that could 
take on your account- 
Some investors suggest you 
choasc several brokers at 
different firms and let each 
handle a part of your port- 
folio until you decide on the 
right one. 

The broker you choose 
should have a philosophy 
about investment that is as 
close as possible to your 
own. Find out how he 

continued on ^ 



AN INVITATIONTO SKEPTICS. 

In other words, the PLP does 
for printed communications 
what the Macintosh did for per- 
sonal computing. 

It provides a sophisticated, yet 
affordable tool for anyone who 
needs to manage large amounts 
of information— and wants to 
work smarter and more creatively 
in the process. 

^ to answer the question 
we began with: the PLP printed 
the document that appears on 
the right But you don't have to 
take our word for it. 

We invite you to make your 
own comparisons through a 
PLPdemonstration at any author- 
ized General Computer dealer 
Where you'll also be able to com- 



A$5000 LASER PRMTER? 



SFOR«600? 



But the PLP 
' also provides as- 
sistance even 
these vastly more 

Like vastly more expensive laser expensive printers dont 



printers, the PLP allows you to print 
scanned photographs and illustrations, 
high-resolution graphics created with 
software like MacDraw®and Micro- 
soft's® Excel, and otiierwise juggle 
words and pictures until you have 
them exactly where you want them. 



Including a choice of Bitstream® 
fonts limited only by your hard disk's 
capacity to store them. (Fonts you 
can easily adjust to any point size, or 
fraction thereof) 

A preview feature that lets you 
review each page before you print it. 



pare another pair of documents that 
are far easier to tell apart; 

A Personal LaserPrinter price tag. 
And that of any other laser printer of 
equal quality. 

For the name of the dealer near- 
est you, call (800) 634-9737* 

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GENERAL 

COMPUTER 



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“Can you believe it? Our team got picked 
for the hottest project of the year 
because they found out 
we do all our work on Sony diskettes’.’ 



he fast-moving, fast- 
thinking people in 
todayh competitive 
corporate world 
are the people pushing for 
the highest standards. For 
example, Sony diskettes. 

People in the know; know 
that Sonyh standards are the 
very highest. That, after all, is 
what made Sony a world leader 
in audio, video and computer 
magnetic storage media. 

But selecting Sony also 
shows solid business sense 
because we invented the 
revolutionary 3.5" disk 



drive and 3.5" floppy disk. 

So we simply have much 
more experience than anyone 
else at making and perfecting 
3.5" floppy disks. 




Think of it this way: 
when your reputation^ on 
the line and you’ve put your 
very best into your work, 
you want to be sure that 
your floppies are every bit as 
good as you are. 

The way to do that is to 
make sure they’re Sony 

Then you’ll be in the very 
best of company 




THE ONE AND ONLY. 




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Letters 

A forum for Macworld readers 



Noise Pollution 

The Mac SE is too loud; Apple s first at- 
tempt at installing a fan in a Mac doesn’t 
make it. 1 ended up disconnecting my SE s 
fan and drilling holes in the top of the case 
where the vents on older Macs are. Now^ I 
have SE powder and quiet in my home, 
without overheating problems. It would be 
a shame if this superior machine s sales are 
hurt because of a cheap, noisy fan. 

Barry Smith 

San hyancisco, California 

Because there is ample evidence that heat 
damages components enough to shorten 
their lifespan, we dont recommend re- 
ducing the power of the SE fan, even 
though it does sound like a rattletrap in a 
(juiet home environment. Apple hasn't 
commented for publication, hut we un- 
derstand the company is looking into 
quieter cooling systems. -Ed. 

The Downfall of Upgrades 

Last fall, after years of using an Apple He, I 
bought a Mac Plus. Now, having had my 
new Mac for only four months, I find it su- 
perseded by the SE-with no upgrade path. 
Is this planned obsolescence? If the people 
at Apple can’t provide a reasonably priced 
upgrade (for w’hich there is ample histori- 



Corrections 

Steve Brechers Finder substitute, Way- 
Station (Mac Bulletin, 1987), is not 

a shareware product; it's uncopyrighted 
and available free from user groups and 
ofiline information services. Sorryf, Steve, 
we just can't seem to believe you're giving 
it away. 




cal precedent with Apple machines), they 
should be willing to redeem the Plus at its 
original cost, to be put tow^ard the pur- 
chase of an SE or a Mac II. 

Rev. Raymond B. Knudsen II 

Westwood, Neiv Jersey 

Even if Apple doesn't offer atj upgrade 
path to the SE, some dealers may So far 
we've heard of one dealer in Utah who of- 
fers a trade-in. Anybody know of dealers 
who do tbat?-Ed. 

Laser Laments 

We Mac users need the type of story you 
published on third-party laser printers 
[“Laser Wars, ’’June 1987). Even Apple needs 
such stories-as motivation to make better 
products. But your article left holes wiiere 
information should have been. 

In addition to reviewing “four repre- 
sentative LaserWriter alternatives,” wiiy not 
list all available PostScript printers? And 
product review^s need support review's too. 
Tell us about these manufacturers and their 
reputations. What does Apple have in 
store-a LaserWriter based on a l 6 -MHz 
68020 processor, or one that can print a full 
8 ‘/ 2 - by 14-inch page? 



PostScript printers are proliferatmg rap- 
idly-at press time there were 21. Here's a 
list of models announced since the June 
article, with dots-per-inch for each in pa- 
rentheses: three models (72 to 300) from 
Apollo Computet] Compugraphic's CG 
400-PS (406), two models from DEC 
(300), IBM's Personal Pageprinter (300), 
NEC's SilentWriter LC-890 (300), NBI's 
Model 90S (300), QMS's PS 2400 (300), 
and Varityper's VP-600 (600). In addi- 
tion, Orange Micro has introduced a $99 
cable adapter that lets you corniect your 
Mac to one of the lower-cost non-Post- 
Script laser printers. Finally, we all have 
expectations about new Apple products, 
but until the company firms up its platts 
our speculations are Just that -not 
the stuff on which to base buying 
decisions. -Ed. 

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lime comes to choose. Can't you liixl a way 
lo solve ihis dilemma, such as .selling disks 
that group evaluations of .software in a 
given area? 

Francis Marhin'g 
Fails Church, Virginia 

We agree. That !s why were assenihled a 
200-page collect ioti ofreriews-itpdated, 
qfcourse-for new subscribers, to Jill 
them if I ofi what they hare missed. A) id 
that's why we emphasize comparatire re- 
riews and orerriew articles. You can also 
use the index we publish each year in the 
January issue to compare a class of prod- 
ucts that were reriewed one by one.-Fd. 

Getting Started with Satire 

in March, 1 wrote a letter mocking your 
simplistic Getting Started column hy j'jlac- 
ing it (I thought with wild exaggeration) in 
the “how-to dust-the-keyhoard” category 
of usefulness. Now, 1 lind that very category 
is the topic Ibr July 1987! What s next-how 
to plug your Mac into the wall? 

Hal Bar wood 

San Anselmo, California 

On the Other Hand 

For those of us new to computers and to 
ilie Mac in particular, it would he helpful if 
you would run a short glo.s.sary of acro- 
nyms commonly u.sed in the industry It is 
hard to fully benelii from your magazine 
when one comes across these names with- 
out knowing what they mean. 

Mark Spiegler 
Van Nuys, California 

We published ''Get ting Started with Mac 
Acronyms' in January J987. Watch fu- 
ture issues for an updated resource.-Vx\. 

Dust to Dust 

1 agree with Jim I leid [“Getting Started 
with Basic Maintenance,"July 1987] that un- 
nece.ssary cleaning of disk-drive heads can 
he detrimental, hut iVe found that dust and 
otlier particles can he effectively removed 
using a portable vacuum cleaner like a 
Dusthuster. You'd he amazed at how much 
of the stuff comes out. 

Bruce E. Wdlson 
Lynnu ^ood, Wdshif igton 

Across the Blue Atlantic 

I will he moving soori to Kdln, West Ger- 
many, where 1 would like to buy a xMac 11 or 

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The Laser View 
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S£ and the Maontosh 
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iBesktcp Pibliahing 
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they’re describing LaserView/“ 
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LaserView provides a 1664 x 1200 
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LaserView is a noninterlaced 
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You can select the default 
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Apple Computer .sv/r.s' that both the Mac // 
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Music for Pros 

As a professional music producer and Mac 
MIDI consultant, I regret the lack of exper- 
tise in ytuir review of |“Sound 

Choice "July 1987|, which laments that “it 
reejuires a good deal of practice" to u.se. 
Well, who can master a CAD/CAM package 
instantly? As for the reviewer s complaint 
about price, when studio time costs J250 
an hour. Sound Lab can pay for ii.self in 
one afternoon. Finally, the music commu- 
nity is firmly committed to the Mac, so for a 
writer in a Macintosh magazine to recom- 
mend using an Apple lie or a Commodore 
64 is unbelievable. 

Jeremy Roberts 

Neiv York City 

While the Mac has cerjainly emerged as 
the professional musician 's computer of 
choice, musicians on a budget trill use 
irhaterer they can (tfford-and many of 
them are still using the Commodore 64. 
You are right about the savings possible 
once Sound Lab is mastered, but ivhat 
about the cost of studio time while you 
figure out how to run it? Musicians are 
like everyotie else: they want tools that 
make things easier. If we dotit speak up 
when we think a program could he sim- 
plified, how can we expect developers to 
labor over their software design?-Fd. 

Unnecessary Roughness 

Our game NFL Challenge [“Monday Morn- 
ing Quarterbacking," July 1987] is not, as 
stated, for the “novice or casual follower of 
the game"; people choose it because of its 
sophistication and realism. NFL Chal- 
lenge'^ coaching strategy, ba.sed on game 
plans like iho.se that teams realh' u.se, is 
more appropriate for a simulation than is 
making up plays as you go along. We have 
received calls from consumers who say 
they are ordering the game in spite of Mac- 

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1 laving once played Ibothall, I find A77. 
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Another Penalty 

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July 19H7| did not mention a .significant pro- 
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A Fool’s Errand 

Or, a Baedeker 

for the Boston Macworld Expo 



T\vent\'-five thousand strong they came to 
the Boston expo. Enough people to clog 
the aisles and make some of us long for the 
good old days when we could get to know 
all the developers on a first-name hasis- 
nevermore. The Mac industry is i^ow big 
business. Fortunately there were enough 
exciting products to justify all the enthusi- 
asm-and the effort of wading through the 
crowds. Here is a sampler of the new prod- 
ucts I .saw. 

Hardware. Oy! Large -screen monitors 
for the Mac SE or the ll-from Moniterm, 
MacPeak Systems, New Image Technology, 
and SuperMac. Accelerators from Levco, 
.MacPeak, and .MicroDynamics. The Trans- 
Link II from Levco carries one to four IN- 
.MOS transputers. At up to 20 million 
instructions per .second, that makes the 
Mac a churning urn of burning umph. And 
there's a small version for the SE. Color 
j:>ri liters: Conijiuter friends showed a 
driver for the Shinko color thermal printer, 
while Hewlett-Packard showed Colorjet, 
the lirst color ink-jet printer for the Mac. 
Computer Friends also bundled Poster^ 
Maker with the printer. In fact, the com- 
jxiny produced the backdrop for its 12- by 
8-foot booth with colored sheets from the 
printer. Neat. 

Laser printers were dominated by the 
GCC Personal La.serPrinter at $2500. 1 low- 
ever, other vendors were showing similar 
technology ( albeit without GCCs fonts and 
complete strategy) at even lower prices. 
Orange Micro promises a QuickDraw (defi- 
nitely not PostScript ) laser printer for un- 
der $1500, and Laser Connection was 
showing- but “not commenting upon for 
the press”-a Canon-based printer for un- 
der $2000. 



Scanners are .struggling into the real 
world at last. Microtek demonstrated an 
8-bit gray-scale input ability, while Data- 
copy demonstrated 4-bit gray-.scale injxit 
software. Olduvai has some interesting 
software that allows us to train its scanner 
to read new fonts. New Image Technology 
has added a flatbed scanner to its line, and 
Spectrum Digital showed a new scanner. 
Quark, ofXPress fame, has wrangled an 
option to sell the color scanner from Can- 
on now sold by Howtek. 

I^emember MacViz, publisher of 
Lhik /V//s?Well, the company, now called 
Pi.xelogic, showed standard video digitized 
onto a Mac ll-real-time video on a Mac. 

1 lard disks have again become the 
most volatile .segment of the market i')lace, 
as they did during the b(X)m years of the 
IBM I^C. Kodime and NuData have set the 
benchmark for larger disks, lOOMB and 
above, at $10 per megabyte. NuData 
showed its tower: a gigaby te of memory in 



a chassis that includes a Mac II acting as 
a dedicated server on a network. More 
spoolers and backup .software, from La Cie, 
Fifth Generation Sy.stems, and .NuData. 
NuData s looked particularly easy to use. 
Tangent takes the “best u.se of an IBM PC” 
honors for this show; the PC serves as a 
PostScript spooler for Macs. So if you have 
a cheap PC clone, or one that you no long- 
er u.se, it can eliminate tho.se mandatory 
lunch breaks you've taken while the .Mac 
and the laser printer generated complex 
documents. 

RAM memory upgrades. Now the big 
three-Dove, MacMemory, and Ma.ss Micro- 
have competition from Microtech Interna- 
tional and Hard Soft. I’hey can actually 
ship us .some memory to ea.se the Multi- 
Finder pinch. 

Strawberry Tree announced data- 
acquisition cards for the Mac II and the 

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Mac SE. .Aiiiomaii.x .showed ihe Mac 11 hiiili 
into an indu.sirial controller tlrivini; a pick- 
and-place robot arm. 'fhi.s is the lir.si Mac II 
implementation of this kind in the I niied 
.States. By comparison, it took the IB.M PC 
two years from its incejMion to move into 
this area. 

The expo was al.so a hotbed for com- 
munications products. Solana Electronics 
showed a specialized modem that allows 
access to AppleTalk networks via phone 
lines, like the I layes lnieiih’idi>e. Modem 
.server.s-producis that allow multiple users 
to share a single modem over a network- 
are finally here. We re using the Shi\'a mo- 
dem here at MaarorUi, shared among 20 
editors. Ahaton demo’ed its MultiTilk 
shared modem. I nfosphere announced 
ComSerre, extending the concept to in- 
clude any resources shared on the net- 
work-printers, Ibi’ example. La Cie's S/ircr 
went even ruriher. allowini> remote 
acce.ss to hard drives attached to indivkiual 
Macs on a remote network. Ceniram has 
lieaten out Apple with a \ersion of'rCPdP 
for the Mac. Admittedly, as a part of Sun. 
Centram has the motive and the re.sources 
to acce.ss hies on Sun .Microsy. stems work- 
statk)ns; at least .someone has provided 
this link. 

'fwo companies introduced facsimile 
modems; Apple Computer and .My.siic \’al- 
ley Research (MVR). Both companies were 
running a Pana.sonic modem. M\'R has the 
advantage of having licensed a major direc- 
tory of fax addresses, available to its users 
as a disk file. Enter addre.ss codes oflline to 
send the .same message to muluple sources. 

Compuier graphics led in the .soft- 
ware realm. .New painting packages in- 
cluded Letrasei s Inta^^c Studio aiul Super- 
Macs Pixel Paint. \ lot of people seemed 
to think that Pixel Paitt/ was merely d/r/c- 
Petiut in color. Look again-it rivals the 
minicomputer paint systems that have had 
[\w years to mature. LaserPaitU now works 
on color displays. Cricket announced a raft 
of printer drivers. Tlie fir.st Adobe /llusfra- 
for-ha.sed clip art collections ap|)eared 
from T/Maker, Image Club, anel ( in optical- 
disk form) from Mulii-.Ad Services. There 
w'ere new' fbiu.^^ h*om Adobe, Ca.sadv’, and 
Invincible. Those of you using Comic Strip 
Pactory should check out the new charac- 
ters disk. 

Both mechanical and electrical CAD 
fared well ai the show. Douglas Electronic.s’ 
tb'ofessioual Systeni for PC design and lay- 
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Personal Computing, April 1987 

“The ability to alter the image in detail 
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graphics editors.. .The LS-300 is a good 
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PC Magazine, April 1987 

Imagine being able to scan photos, graphics, and 
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We serve most European locations (served by UPS) — 
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2092 

2095 



1450 • MncBuffer/1024K $ 429 

1207 MacVision $ 175 

MicroGraphic Images 

• CineMac Comp Card NBW $ 79 

• McgaModule Card NBW $ 79 
20% • MegaScrnSE*M(19.5") $1499 

w>‘SE only 

1850 •McgaScmll (19.5") S1499 

Mtorte Mf/S I2K & Mac Plus only 
MinuteMan Power Supplies 

1866 • MinuteMan 250 $ 289 

1867 • MinuteMan 300SS $ 439 

2118 • MinuteMan 600SS NBW S 739 

ScripTEN PostScript Laser Printers 

1996 • 2MB Printer SPECIAL $3699 

1997 • 3MBPrinter SPECIAL $3999 

IVe carry aK ScripTEN accessones & supplies 

1871 Seikosha Printer S 229 

1141 • Printer Stand $ 17 

1935 • Ribbon for Seikosha $ 8 

1054 ThunderScan 4.0 SPECIAL $ 199 

New version works mS 12K. Mac Plus S SE 
1570 TScan to Plus/SE Adapter $ 49 
Needed lor earlier ver^ns only 




The Seikosha Printer is a dot- 
matrix printer that works just 
like the ImageWriter. Get the 
same quality and convenience 
for less than half the price. 
WorAa w/aiiy Mac; requires cable 
1871 • From Seikosha America 

$229 



Disk Drives 



1903 


Bering Totem SCSI Drives 
• 20*meg Cartridge Drive 


S1595 


1906 


• 20+20 Dual Cartridge 


$2295 


1909 


• 40-meg Fx’dw/20-meg Cart $3095 


1701 


We carry accessones for your Benng Drives: 
call to order 

Bernoulli 5-meg Serial Drive $ 499 


1971 


Call to order other Bernoulli doves i accessories 
CMS SCSI Drives 
• Compact S20A SPEOAL $ 599 


1970 


• Compact S40 


SCall 


1969 


• MacStack SD20 


$Call 


1968 


• MacStack SD43 


$Call 


1967 


• Pro 40 SE Internal Drive 


SCall 


2124 


• Pro 40 II Internal Drive 


SCall 


2100 


• SC40A SPEaAL S 799 


2085 


• S-140 


$2795 


2086 


•S-240 


$3995 


2087 


• S-320 


$5295 


1972 


• SE Internal Cabinet Kit 


$ 149 


1323 


MacBottom Drives 
• HD 20 Serial /Beige 


S 859 


1653 


• HD 21 SCSI/Beige 


$ 859 


1988 


• HD 21 SCSI/Platinum 


$ 859 


1843 


• HD 21 M/Beige 


$ 999 


2111 


• HD21M/Platinum 


$ 999 


1842 


• I ID 45 SCSI/Beige 


$1289 


1989 


• HD 45 SCSI/Platinum 


SI 289 


1845 


• HD45M/Beige 


S1429 


2112 


• HD45M/Platinum 


$1429 


1846 


• Modem Upgrade/Beige 


$ 189 


2113 


• Modem Upgrade/Plat. 


$ 189 




Brighten up any wall! The 
Mac DayDreams wall calendar 
features 12 full-color Mac-gen- 
erated graphics. An ideal gift 
for friends/colleagues. 

12" X 24": incimh’s Mac tips & trivia 
2182 • From Publishing Ink 

$10 



2185 MicroMAC BOOK Drive NEW $ 184 
NuData SCSI Drives 
We now carry NuData drives: call to order 
Zap SCSI Drives 

1892 -Zap SS-10 $459 

1939 • Zap SS-40 $999 



Accessories 



$ 249 
$ 189 
$ 89 

$ 53 

$ 79 

$18-28 



2079 AnthroCart 

2080 • Side Car Printer Stand 

2081 • Slide-out Shelf 

2082 • Storage Basket 
1142 .A -f Mouse 

Backup Cassettc>s 
We carry cartridges to frt mosf tape 
backup systems 
Books 

2117 • Graphics Guide for DTPnew $ 14 

1905 • How to Write Mac Softu>are $ 24 

1908 • Mac Access $ 19 

1690 • Macintosh Advisor $ 15 

1893 • Macintosh Bible $ 16 

1910 • Personal Publishing $ 21 

Cables $1S40 

tVa have a full line of quality cables: call to order 
Carrying Cases 
1631 • For ImageWriter 1 & II 
1644 • For Mac & Mac Plus 
Computer Accessories 
1834 • Power Director 

1813 • PowerLinc One 

1814 • PowerLine Six 
1498 • PowerLine Strip 

Copy Holders 

1 882 • Desktop (8 1 /2 x 1 1 ) 

1883 • Desktop /Wide (11 x 17) 

1884 • SpaceSaver (81/2 X 11) 



S 69 
$ 89 



$ 12 
$ 19 
$ 28 




Designed for speed & com- 
fort, the quadLYNX Trackball 
is a quality alternative to the 
mouse. Requires no move- 
ment space on your desk. 

Not comfxttible w/Mac SE or II 
1724 • From Asher Engineering 

$99 



1769 DataSwitch/128S512KM.ic$ 29 



1820 Data Switch/Mac Plus $ 

Disk Holders 

1704 * ACCO Disk Holder S 

1736 • Disk Pak $ 

1387 • disk*book-10 $ 

1399 • disk •book-32 S 

1572 • disk*book-Plus (16) S 

1032 • Fellowes Disk Holder $ 

1033 • Fellowes w/ Lock $ 

1597 • Mahogany Disk Holder S 

1815 • Rolltop Cabinet/45 S 

1816 • Rolltop Cabinet/90 $ 

1781 • Traveller-4 $ 

1780 •Traveller-8 $ 

1779 • Traveller-12 $ 

Dust Covers 

1406 • External Drive Cover S 

1407 • IW (standard) Cover $ 

1408 • rW (wide) Cover $ 

1410 • IW II Cover S 

1411 • LaserWriter Cover S 




Share modems and other 
serial devices on AppleTalk 
with ComServe, an easy-to- 
use software solution that 
saves you money. 

Works W/512K. Mac Plus, SE & II 
2123 • From InfoSphere 

$129 



1404 • Mac/ Keyboard Cover $ 15 
1409 • Mac Plus Keyboard Cover $ 15 
1296 Fanny Mac/Beige S 59 

2102 Fanny Mac/Platinum NEW S 59 
1402 Head & Sern Cleaner SPECIAL S 15 
ImageWriter Ribbons 
1876 • Black EACH $ 4 

1643B* 4-Color (IW II) EACH $ 12 

Single ntitons also available in blue, green, red. 
ay^k>w:calltoorder 
Kensington 

We carry all Kensington products: call to order 



1853 


Laser Cartridges 
• Black/New 


$ 


99 


1859 


• Black/ Reconditioned 


$ 


69 


1854 


• Blue/ New 


$ 139 


1858 


• Blue /Reconditioned 


S 


79 


1283 


MacCracker 


S 


20 


2182 


Mac DayDreams NEW 


S 


10 




Four-color. t2'x24' 12-month wall calendar 


1527 


Macinker (IW 1 & II Dedicated) 


S 


44 


1314 


• Ink/Black 


$ 


3 


1310 


• Ink/ Blue 


$ 


3 


1315 


• Ink Roller 


$ 


4 


1650 


Mac 'N' Frost/ Beige 


s 


59 


2114 


Mac 'N' Frost/ Platinum 


s 


59 


1966 


Mac 101 Keyboard /Beige 


s 


169 


2059 


• .Mac 101 ADBforSE or II 


$ 


169 


1029 


MacTilt 


$ 


75 


2071 


• MacTilt - Platinum 


$ 


75 


1832 


• MacTilt for Large Screen 


$ 


80 


1943 


• MacTilt for Mac SE 


s 


75 


1977 


MouseCleaner 360* 


s 


15 


1143 


Mouspad (7 x 9) 


s 


8 


1525 


Mouspad (9 X ID 


$ 


9 



Don’t panic! When the power 
goes out, MinuteMan gives 
you 5 to 20 minutes of clean, 
pure power — so you have time 
to save your data & shut down 
gracefully. From Para Systems 

1866 • MM 250 1867 • MM 300SS 
Supports 2 Macs Supports systems w/40* 

Wfhard disks or Ige. monitor 

$289 $439 



2118 • MM 600SS 

Supports 4 Macs w/hard 
disks or 2 wftge. monitors 



$739 



1806 Neos Mouse 


$ 


49 


1718 PC MacKey 


$ 119 


1724 quadLYNX Trackball 


s 


99 


1835 QuickStick 


$ 


49 


1657 SCSI Terminator 


s 


49 


2097 System Sweeper 


$ 


37 


Sony Diskettes 







1344 Diskettes DS/DD-10 SPEML $ 18 
2073 Diskettes DS/DD-50 NEW $ 84 
1144 Diskettes SS/DD-10 SPBaAL $ 12 
2072 Diskettes SS/DD-50 NEW $ 58 

Prices and availability are subject to 
change without notice. 

NOTE: These prices do not include 
shipping/ handling charges; please call 




The optical A-f Mouse moves 
effortlessly across its special 
pad (included). Quiet & com- 
fortable, it has no moving parts 
that wear out or need cleaning. 
Not compatible wfMac SE or II 
1142 • Faim Mouse Systems Corp. 

$79 




800 / 228-8910 

Good anywhere in U.S. 



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STOCK f PROPUCT NAME ?WCr 



Software 

Adobe Fonts 

We non carry the M coHeclior) ol Mobe 



Fcnis: caH to order 

2186 AffiniFile NEW $ 59 

1840 Business Sense NEW S 269 

1817 CalendarMaker $ 28 

2106 Canvas NEWS 119 

2107 • Canvas DA only NEW $ 64 

1911 CAT. SCall 

1889 Certificate Maker $ 42 




800 / 228-8910 

Good anywhere in U.S. 



ClickArt 

We carry aO T Maker ClickArt ; call to order 

2103 Coach 3.0 NEW $ 62 

2108 • Coach Thesaurus NEW S 39 

2104 • Coach Professional W£M'S119 
2179 • Coach Prof. Network NEW S 299 



1523 Colomrate 
1503 Colomrate Art 
1444 ColorPrint 
2105 Comment 



$ 48 
$ 29 
SPECIAL S 25 
NEW S 64 



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Protect your expensive equip- 
ment from troublesome dust 
and static with these classy 
dust covers. Finely tailored 
and made of waterproof rip- 
stop nylon for extra protection. 
See Product Listiug for prices 
From Sensible Softworks 



1012 Copy II Mac $ 25 

1696 Cricket Draw SPECIAL $ 175 

1335 Cricket Graph SPECIAL $ 125 

1856 Disk Express SPECIAL S 25 

1912 DiskFit S 49 

2048 • Network DiskFit S 279 

1913 Disk Quick SPECIALS 27 

1346 Easy3D $ 89 

1013 Electric Checkbook $ 29 

1737 Fact Finder $ 49 

1691 FeditPlus $ 39 

1664 FileMaker Plus SCall 

2049 Findswell $ 39 

1018 Ruent Fonts $ 29 

Ruent Laser Fonts EACH $ 49 

1403 FullPaint SPECIAL $ 49 

1890 Geometry SPEOAL $ 64 

1705 Glue * SPECIAL $ 39 

1865 Graphic Works 1.1 S 69 

1629 Hard Disk Backup S 39 

1778 Hard Disk Partition S 39 

1289 Hard Disk Utility $ 57 

1020 Helix 2.0 SPECIAL $ 99 

1459 • Double Helix $ 279 

1790 • Multiuser Helix $ 445 

1678 HFS Backup from PCPC S 29 

1987 Illustrator NEW SCaW 

1095 In-House Accountant S 119 

1799 Japanese Clip Art /Scroll I S 69 

1800 Japanese Clip Art/Scroll II S 69 

2090 Laser Author $ 105 

1965 LaserPaint $ 349 

1707 LaserServe (peruser) $ 64 

1894 LaserSpeed S 69 



1895 


• LaserSpeed/MultiUser $ 369 


1581 


LightspeedC 


S 129 


1708 


Lightspeed Pascal 


$ 89 


2115 


Lookup 


NEW $ 39 


2074 


MacAllas Professional NEW $ 129 


1818 


MacBillboard 


$ 24 


1995 


MacCalc 


$ 85 


1082 


MacDraft 1.2 


S 159 


1918 


MacGraphics 


$ 149 


2047 


MacInUse 2.0 


$ 55 


1023 


MacLabeler 


$ 29 


1803 


MacMoney 


$ 40 


1668 


MacMovies 


$ 79 


1710 


MaeProof 


S 99 


1695 


Mac3D 


S 129 


1105 


Mac 2^p 


$ 39 


1986 


MapMaker 


S 179 


2149 


MergeWrite 


NEW $ 32 


1397 


Micro Planner Plus 
Microsoft 


SPECIAL $ 299 




We carry all Microsolt products: call to order 


1200 


Mind Write 


SPECIAL $ 159 


1819 


MockPackage Plus 


$ 24 


1641 


MORE 


$ 159 


2144 


Multiuser Appt. Diary NEW $ 89 




Notes... 


EACH $ 42 




Available for Excel PageMaker t.2. 
Works & Word 3.0 


2051 


101 Macros for Excel 


$ 59 


1036 


OverVUE 2.0 


$ 149 


1478 


• Mail Manager 


$ 29 


1477 


• Personal Finance 


$ 29 


1490 


PiclureBase 


$ 64 


2068 


PowerPoint 


SCall 


1215 


Print Shop 


SPECIAL $ 37 


1505 


Prinlw'orks 


S 49 


1254 


Professional Bibliographies $ 199 


1658 


Pro3D 


$ 199 


1728 


Ragtime 


$ 239 


1798 


RAM Snap 


SPECIAL $ 33 


2150 


Record Holder Plus 


NEW $ 45 


2084 


Reflex Plus 


NEW $ 189 


2083 


ResumeWriter 


$ 28 


2069 


Sentinel 


$ 109 


1863 


SideKick 2.0 


$ 59 


1488 


Silicon Press 


$ 42 




Automate repetitive Mac 
operations within any applica- 
tion with Tempo macros. Or- 
der today to reap the time- 
saving benefits Tempo offers. 
WerJks wf512K, Miic Plus & 5E 
1307 • FronT Affinilv Microsystems 

$53 



1465 


Smart Alarms 




$ 


39 


1857 


SmartScrap & The Clipper 


S 


44 


1365 


Spellswell 




S 


54 


2050 


• Legal Dictionary 




$ 


59 


1936 


• Medical Dictionary 


$ 


59 


1060 


Stat Works 1.3 


SPECIAL S 


75 


1848 


Stella for Business 




s 


259 


1937 


Stepping (3ut 




s 


59 


2151 


SuperGlue 


NEW $ 


69 


1811 


Super LaserSpool 




$ 


99 


1938 


• Super LaserSpool /Multi 


$ 


259 


1720 


SuperPaint 




s 


53 


1810 


SuperSpool 




$ 


49 


1307 


Tempo 


SPECIAL $ 


53 


1804 


Thunder 1.1 




$ 


34 


1432 


TopDesk 




s 


35 


1847 


Trapeze 




SCall 


1721 


Turbo Pascal 




$ 


59 


1047 


Typing .Made Easy 




S 


33 


2091 


VLS Bulk MaUer ' 




$ 159 


1377 


WillWriter 




$ 


32 


2132 


Word Finder 


NEW $ 


39 


1480 


WordTools 




S 


55 


1839 


Works Plus Spell 




s 


42 


1694 


WriteNow 


SPEaAL S 


99 




A powerful PostScript draw- 
ing program. Illustrator com- 
bines the control and detail of 
drawing by hand with the 
computer’s precision & speed. 
W(jr^'s w/Mac Plus, SE & II 
1987 • From Adobe Systems, Inc. 

SCall 



Education/Games 



2052 


Business Simulator 


$ 


59 


1761 


Dark Castle 


S 


28 


1868 


Dinner at 8 Bundle SPECMl S 


49 




First Byte Games 


S 


36 




IVe carry aH First Byte programs, call to order 


1559 


Right Simulator 


S 


32 


1685 


Grand Slam Tennis 


$ 


27 


1475 


KidsTime 


$ 


29 


1652 


MacGoIf 


$ 


36 




MacKids Games 


s 


24 




IVe carry aS MacKids programs, call to order 




1233 


Math Blaster 


s 


32 


1869 


Smash Hit Racquetball 


s 


18 



Communications 



Avatex Modems 

2157 • Avatex 1200 NEW $ 139 

2158 • Avatex 2400 NEW $ 269 

2159 Capetronic 1200 bps NEWS 129 
Wall .Mount Modem 

1460 CompuServe Sub. Kit S 23 

2123 ComServe NEW $ 129 

Courier Modems S Call 



We carry all Courier modems: call to order 
1801 Direct 1200 Modem SPEaAL S 119 
2053 EMAC 2400 Modem NEW $ 269 
Hayes 

We carry all Hayes products; call to order 



















Kslr'TTir!! 
















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Keep a clear picture of your 
finances with MacMoney, the 
award-winning personal ac- 
counting package that is easy 
to learn and use. 

Works W/5I2K, Mac Plus, SE & II 
1803 • From Survivor 5t)flivare 

$40 


1437 


InBox Starter Kit 


S 249 



1593 • InBox Personal Connections 89 

1973 inTalk $ 159 

1132 MacEnhancer SPECIAL $ 175 
1731 MacLink Plus w/8’ Cable $ 159 
1396 MacServe (per server) SPECIAL $ 169 
2046 Microphone 1. 1 S 119 

New version, bundled w'Glue 
2063 Modular Cable Kit NEW S 99 
500 phone cable. tOO connectors i cnmpmg 
tool lor do^ yourselt network connections 
PhoncNet Networking Products 

1739 • Forl28&512K/E S 49 

1740 • For Mac Plus, SE & II S 49 

1765 • AppleTalk Adapter S 8 

2006 Pocket Modem S 189 



Hardware 

1902 ASTTurboScan SPEaAL $1649 

2003 Da tacopy Scanner 730 S1589 

2004 • Software & Interface $ 599 

2093 • Document Feeder $ 459 

Dove Computer Corp. 

We carry MaeSnap Memory Upgrades, mcluchng 
ttw new 8S for the Mac 11; calf tor prices — we 
have the fowesti 

Kurta Graphics Tablets ON SALE 



Save up to 20% 

1900 • IS/One (12x12) $ 649 

1898 • IS Penmouse (6 X 9) S 199 

1 899 • Series One (8.5 x 1 1 ) $ 359 

1946 • IBM XT Interface Kit $ 39 

1901 • Corded 4-Button Cursor $ 69 

IfVorfcs w Senes Ore (XT// 

1944 • Cordless 4-Button Cursor $ 109 

1945 • Cordless Pen $ 109 

Both work w/IS One & IS Penmouse 

1452 MacBuffer/256K S 249 

1451 • MacBuffer/512K $ 329 




Anyone who needs to create 
outlines, manage schedules, or 
transform ideas into presenta- 
tion graphics will benefit from 
MORE’s powerful features. 
Works 10/512K. Mac Plus, SE & II 
1641 • From Living Vidvolexl 

$159 






Commentary/Jerry Borrell 




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the first integrated-circuit design system on 
the Mac II. MCMStation added color and 
multiple windowing. Versacad-the second- 
largest supplier of IBM PC-based CAD soft- 
ware-announced its Mac package, and 
Computer Shoppe showed a new 2-D CAD 
product, PowerDraw. 

In the miscellaneous category we had 

companies with interesting input de- 
vices: Anatex s Personal Writer, which al- 
lows liandwritten characters to he input via 
a graphics tablet, and MicroTouch’s valu- 
able screen input that replaces all mouse 
functions. We’ll probably be .seeing that 
touch screen in.stalled in shopping malls 
and stores .soon. Primera Software had the 
lirsi of a new generation of music programs 
for the Mac: Different stands 

apart in its realism and ingenuity 

Games are making a mild comeback. 
Broderhund showed Pc\^us, SES had 
Quarterstciff .Miles Computing had FooPs 
Errand promised Harrier Strike by 
the end of September. And Spectrum I lolo- 
byie showed a pair of war games: Falco)i 
and FT 109. Still no games, sad to report, 
making u.se of the color and grapliics on 
the Mac II. 

I had come to the conclusion, before 
the show, that we had already entered the 
era of the minimum 2MB RAM Mac. I low 
we could afford to upgrade all ihe ediiors 
was one question; whether the Mac Plus 
that many of us had would stand u|3 to such 
an upgrade was an even more troublesome 
matter. My own Mac Plus promptly shorted 
out the power supply on my large-screen 
monitor. “Well, I’ll switch to the Mac II in 
my office,” says I. After spending an hour 
figuring out wh\' the SuperMac monitor 
wasn't working (older model J, building u|d 
the System file with all the products that 
we use AppleShare, InterMail, 

Shiva's NeiModem-and a few applications, 
and tracking down why the laser spooler 
was not working, I was ready to go. “P'avv, I 
thought. Now I'm on a power machine.” 
Then I tried to install some Adobe fonts. 
System error. And I only wanted to type a 
memo. God forbid 1 should try to “test the 
nelwork”-ihai’s our internal code for vs hat 
occurs when scmeone downloads Hyper- 
Card ixo\w our central hard disk. 

I am reminded, as we embark on the 
product testing that follows an expo, of 
how I felt after I'd had m\' old PC rigged out 
to suit my needs: “If it’s not broken, don’t 
Hx it.” Not an auspicious beginning for a 
Brave New World of products. □ 



52 NovcMiilxT 1987 




These unretouched print 
samples show the superior 
print quality of QMS-PS 810 
over printers using first- 
generation print engines. 





The new 
8‘page/minnte 
QMS-PS 810 
laser 
printer 



ntroducing the PostScript laser printer 
that blacks out at high speeds. 



The new QMS-PS’ 810 can compose and print 
the most complex pages in record times, with 
richer, more saturated blacks than ever before. 
All with the desktop publishing power of Adobe 
PostScript*, and the superior print know-how of 
QMS, an industry leader. 

Under the hood QMS ASAP” (Advanced Sys- 
tem Architecture for PostScript) is proprietary 
technology that helps eliminate the hardware 
bottlenecks that hinder other PostScript printers. 
As a result, QMS-PS 810 boasts processing speeds 
remarkably faster than other PostScript printers 
in its class. And faster output means greater pro- 
ductivity. In addition, the QMS-PS 810 laser 

printer’s new Canon* 
SX* print engine 
t I -nj covers solid areas and 
§ I SM. prints fine detail 
better than previous- 
generation engines, 



©1987 Laser Connection 



Fast start, strong finish You can adorn your 
documents with one or all of the 35 Adobe 
typefaces. Thanks to PostScript, there’s an 
infinite number of font variations available. You 
can also make type as large or as small as you 
want. And put it anywhere on the page. In fact, 
with PostScript you enjoy total control over the 
design of your page. It gives you the complete 
desktop publishing power to do things that 
would otherwise be virtually impossible. So you 
get high-quality output exactly how you want it. 

Along with Po^cript, the HP LaserJet +” 
Diablo* 630 and HP-GL™ printer emulations 
are added for your non-PostScript software. 

The QM^PS 810 laser printer is easy to 
use, maintain, and comes with a one-year war- 
ranty. It’s available from Laser Connection 
dealers. Laser Connection is a sales and 
manketing subsidiary of QMS. For the dealer 
nearest you call 1-800-523-2696 . 



connecTion 



A QMS' company 

The following are trademarks of their reactive companies: QMS, QMS-PS, ASAP, 
Laser Connection of QMS, Inc. PostSai^ of Adobe Systems, Inc, Canon, Canon 
SX of Canon, U.S.A. I.aserM -f , HP-Cl. of Hewlett-Packard. Diablo of Xerox Corp. 



Circle 720 on reader service card 




The new 
8-pa^e/mlnute 
QNS-PS 8Q0II 
laser printer 



1 Jiff Coniwtlion. 



he PostScript laser printer sure to get 
high ratings at its network dehut. 



The QMS-PS* 800 II is an 8-page-per-minute 
laser printer that combines the desktop pub- 
lishing power of Adobe PostScript* witli the 
superior printer technology of QMS, a leader 
in printer technology for 10 years. Excep- 
tional paper handling, faster processing 
speed and a Canon* CXD* print engine with 
10,000-page-per-month duty cycle give QMS- 
PS 800 II the versatility your Macintosh"' 
network needs. 

A network sensation QMS-PS 800 11 holds 
500 pages, so operators aren’t constantly 
refilling depleted paper trays. Users can even 
designate automatic switching between the 
two trays for doing letterhead/second page 
printing. Select faceup or facedown collation. 
And manually feed odd-sized paper stock. 

With QMS ASAP'" (Advanced System 
Architecture for PostScript) proprietary tech- 
nology, QMS-PS 800 II delivers outstanding 
performance. In fact, the more complex the 
page, the more it outperforms other Post- 
Script printers. TVvo megabytes of memory, 
expandable to three megabytes, also add to 
the overall page processing speed when you 
are creating complex documents. 



T^e casting The QMS-PS 800 11 comes 
with 35 resident typefaces (you can download 
more if you lilte). PostScript allows you to scale 
type to virtually any size, from minuscule to 
mammoth. PostScript also enables you to de- 
sign, and redesign, your documents with exact- 
ing detail. You have total control over the final 
appearance of documents, with the ability to 
place text and graphics anywhere on the page. 

In short, you get the complete desktop publish- 
ing power that only PostScript can give you. 

Critical acclaim The QMS-PS 800 II is 
certain to receive rave reviews on your net- 
work. And for a single-user set-up, there’s the 
QMS-PS 810 laser printer. l*'or a demonstra- 
tion of either, call 1-800-523-2696 for the loca- 
tion of the Laser Connection dealer nearest 
you. And be sure to ask for The Sourcebook''' 

- our exclusive catalog filled with the latest 
laser printer products and enhancements. 

lUp LASER 

'^connecTion™ 

A QMS* Company 



The fullnwing are trademarks of ttrcir respective companies; QMS. QMiv F'S, ASAP, 
l.,aser Connection of QMS. Inc Madnl»)sn of Apple Computer, Inc. 1‘oslScr ipl d 
Adobe Systems. Inc. CaiKin, Canon CXIJ of Canon, ll.S.A. 

Circle 706 on reader service card 



ossing a laser printer’s 
used toner cartridge is idee 
paying someone $60 
to tate out tile trash. 





Why? Because it can be refilled with toner and 
restored to its original condition, for about half 
the cost of a brand-new toner cartridge. That’s 
how Laser Connection’s Toner Refill Certificate 
Program can save you nearly $700 a year for 
each laser printer in your office. And while other 
programs can promise savings, they lack our ex- 
pertise. Expertise that guarantees you quality. 

Break an expensive habit Not only does a 
toner refill certificate save you money, your 
cartridge comes back better than new. 

Our reconditioning and patented resealing 
process enables us to refill a used toner car- 
tridge with 50% more toner than it first con- 
tained. With a blue toner refill, your cartridge 
is returned with 25% more of that color. So 
your reconditioned cartridge will actually last 
longer than a new one. 

To further insure print quality, we use 
toner that’s denser than new and replace your 
old cleaning rod with a new one. 

Get with the program Any toner cartridge 
used on laser printers employing the Canon* 



CX* print engine (that includes printers made 
by Hewlett-Packard’, Apple* QMS, Canon 
and others) can be reconditioned. 

A participating dealer can get you started. 
Just purchase a Laser Connection Refill Certifi- 
cate for each cartridge. You’ll find instructions 
and shipping materials for sending us your 
empty toner cartridge. You’ll get back a factory- 
reconditioned cartridge returned to you via 
Federal Express’. A cartridge that costs less and 
works better than new ones. It’s also backed by 
our guarantee— if you’re not happy with the 
performance of your cartridge, we’ll give you 
another refill certificate to replace it. 

To start putting away your $700 in savings, 
call 1-800-523-2696 
for the Laser Connection 
dealer nearest you. And 
be sure to ask for The 
Sourcebook"' — our 
exclusive catalog filled 
with the latest laser 
printer products and 
enhancements. 

li^LASCR 

vsconnecTion 

A QMS* Company 



The following are Irademaiiu 
(/ their respective companies: 
Canon, Canon-CX of Canon 
U.S.A. Hewlett-Packard of 
Hewlett-Packard. Apple of 
Apple Computer. Inc. QMS. 
Laser Connection of QMS. 
Inc. Federal Expre» of 
Federal Express Corp. 



©1987 Laser Connection. 



Circle 707 on reader service card 











The PaperPlus 
500 Sheet Feeder 
is for the Apple 
LaserWriter and 
all other laser 
printers that use 
the Canon CX 
print engine. 



Constantly refilling the paper tray on your 
Apple* LaserWriter* can eat up lots of your 
time. Keep that from happening with the Fhper- 
Plus SOO'* feeder from Laser Connection. 

An appetizing solution PaperPlus 500 
easily attaches to the back of your Laser- 
Writer, or any laser printer that uses a Canon* 
CX* engine, including QMS-PS* 800 + , QMS 
KISS’" HP LaserJet'" and others. Its 500- 
sheet capacity keeps you from giving your laser 
printer constant attention, especially when jou’re 
printing laige volumes of documents at one 
time. You can keep your printer humming 



continuously for nearly an hour without taking 
a break— that’s a 300% increase in your 
efficiency. 

There’s also an increase in your Laser- 
Writer’s flexibility. You can load the front tray 
of your LaserWriter with letterhead, and 
PaperPlus 500 with second sheets. You can 
then instruct the printer to pull a sheet from 
the front tray first, then instructions to pull 
second sheets from PaperPlus 500. 

If after printing your documents you need 
to mail them, you can quickly turn the Paper- 
Plus 500 into an envelope feeder. It can hold 
up to 50 envelopes, so you don’t have to feed 
them through by hand one at a time as you 
would on most other laser printers. 




Come and get it Setting up the PaperPlus 
500 is quick and easy; you get clear instructions 
to show you how. It also comes with a high- 
capacity output stacker to replace the one on 
your printer. 

1b satisfy your LaserWriter’s hunger with 
PaperPlus 500, call 1 - 800 - 523-2696 for the 
location of the Laser Connection dealer nearest 
you. And be sure to ask for The Sourcebook™— 
our exclusive catalog filled with the latest laser 
printer products and enhancements. 

iHE LASER 

'5sconnGCTion“ 

A QMS* Company 







'Hte following are trademarks of their respective companies: Apple, LaserWriter of 
Apple Computer, Inc. QMS, KISS, QMS-TO. Laser Connection of QMS^ Inc. 
U.serJel of Hewlett-Packard: Canon, Canon CX of Canon U.S.A. 

©1987 Laser Connection. 

Circle 708 on reader service card 





This spring, a company called Laser Connection 
introduced a new concept to laser printing. 

It didn’t come in the form of hardware, or 
software. 

Instead, it came as a book. A catalog, 
actually. 

Titled The Sourcebook^, it brought to- 
gether for the first time the full array of prod- 
ucts available for laser printing and desktop 
publishing. 

Printers. Controller upgrades. Sheet 
feeders. Scanners. Monitors. TVpe fonts. Plus 
notes, articles and how-to’s that help you 
make the most of your laser printing system. 




A collection of best-sellers The Source- 
book committed to paper what Laser 
Connection has been doing quite successfully 
for some time. That is, working with top manu- 
facturers to give you laser printing solutions 
that offer greater performance, convenience 
and cost savings. 



Granted, we had some help. Laser 
Connection is part of QMS, a recognized 
leader in the development of intelligent print- 
ing systems. So teaming with their 10 years of 
print technology experience, we can give you 
products that take in all the latest advance- 
ments. Thatls why the QMS KISS* laser printer 
and PS Jef ” PostScript controller kit were 
voted best of 1986 by PC Magazine. And why 
we can offer the widest range of Adobe Post- 
Script* products anywhere, products that 
time and again have been chosen by industry 
experts as best in their class. 

Where to find our guide in the field 

Laser Connection products are available from 
selected dealers throughout the country. For 
the location nearest you, or for your own copy 
of The Sourcebook, call 1 - 800 - 523 - 2696 . 

life L A5€R 

'^connecTion” 

A QMS' Company 








II(ELA5GR 

vsconnecTiorr 

A QAfS* Company 



IS’300 
Sheet-Fed 
Scanner 

The followinjl arc trademarks 
of their respective companies: 
OMS-re. Laser Connection of 
QMS, Inc. Canon, Canon CX 
(/ Canon USA. Inc. Apple, 
LiserWriter, Macintosh of 
Apple Computer, Inc. HP and 
LaserJet of Hewlett-Packard. 

IHM l>C/XT/AT of Internation- 
al Business Machines Corp. 

© 1987 l-iser Connection. 



Scan this The IS-SOO^" sheet-fed scanner 
transfers any text, illustration, art, or photo- 
graph into your computer. You then 
have full control to manipulate the 
entire image with your PC and 
software. Combine scanned 
images with text to create reports 
and newsletters. You save time, 
get graphics flexibility, and increase 
your desktop publishing power. The IS- 
300 scanner is compact, lightweight, and 
works with an IBM* PC/XT/ATI PC compatible, 
or an Apple Macintosh" 

Colorful language Besides basic black. 
Laser Connection offers toner cartridges 
with blue and brown toner. Our dense, high- 
quality toner insures full, even coverage in 



Get the best advice on the care of your laser 
printer from Laser Connection— one of the 
world’s leading suppliers of laser printers and 
desktop publishing accessories. Our dealers 
carry many of the latest products that enhance 
the value and productivity of your printer. 



Feeding time Decrease your laser printer’s 
daily feedings with the PaperPlus 
500" sheet feeder. Its greater 
paper 

increases the 
operation of your printer 
from I2'k minutes to one 
hour, leaving your office 
staff to more important work 
than feeding the printer. 

The PaperPlus 500 can accom- 
modate a varied diet of envelopes and 
letter-size paper, and is compatible with all 
Canon’ CX’ laser printers, including the 
QMS-PS’ 800+ , Apple’ LaserWriter’: and the 
HP UserJet’: 



whatever color you choose. And our toner 
cartridges work with any laser printer that 
uses a Canon CX print engine. 



I Black 
I Brown 
H Blue 



PaperPlus 500 
Sheet Feeder 



Jbner Cartridges 



A valuable alternative Don’t trash your 
laser printer’s empty toner cartridge. Refill 
and recondition it with the Laser Connection’s 
Toner Refill Certificate Program. You’ll save 
about half the cost of a new toner cartridge. 
And while other programs can promise savings, 
they lack the expertise of Laser Connection. 
Expertise that guarantees you 
quality. Each reconditioned ^ . 

cartridge is refilled with more 
toner than it started with. So 
you save money, and you get 
a cartridge that lasts longer, 
satisfaction guaranteed, or 
we’ll give you a free replace- 
ment certificate. Only at par- 
ticipating Laser Connection 
dealers 

Cail 1-800-523-2696 for the Laser 
Connection dealer nearest you. And be sure to 
ask for The Sourcebook'"— o\xx exclusive cata- 
log filled with the latest laser printer products 
and enhancements. 



guide to the care 
and feeding 
of your iaser printer. 



Circle 767 on reader service card 



Contributors 

Notes 



Mary V. Excel Macro Trea- 

sury'') is a computer trainiugspecialist 
who serves corporate clients. She is au- 
thor q/' Using Excel ami Excel Macro Li- 
brary, published this year by Que 
Corporation. 

Barbara J. Chan CMac System Tools'), o 
writer and publication designer, teaches 
computer-based graphics and publishing. 
She was editor-in-chief q/'The Macazine 
during its first year. 

Gordon Haig CMac System Tools"), an 
active member of the Berkeley Macintosh 
Users Group, wrote a celebrated article 
for the BMl'G Newsletter on using the 
Tandy portable with the Mac. 

Michael Mallery (“Beyond Black and 
White") is a photolithographer and graph- 
ic designer who gained hands-on experi- 
ence in electronic publishing with his arts 
publication. Another Room Magazine. 

Jim Morton (“Beyond Black and 
White"), a San Tran cisco primer/ desktop 
publisher, produces his Pop Void modern 
cult tire periodical usittg PageMaker. 

David L. Peltz (“Bettchmark: Mechanical 
CAD") has been involved with computer 
graphics since 1966. President of CAD- 
ventures in Chatsworth, California, he 
consults on microcomputer applications 
of computer graphics. He is also an asso- 
ciate editor of the CAD/CAM Journal for 
the Macintosh Professional. 

Bruce Webster (“Just How Compatible Is 
Compatible?" ), a Macworld contributing 
editor, is a widely published writer who 
specializes iti personal computer topics. 

Matt Zeidenberg (“What's in a Win- 
dow?"), a graduate student in computer 
science at the University of Wisconsin, 
has written on artificial intelligoice, 
computer graphics, and networking. □ 




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print at the same time. 

And it does this 5 to 40 
times faster than its 
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SuperLaserSpool 
gets you back to work 
fast. You never wait for 
the printer, no matter 
how many documents you have queued up 
or even if the network is busy. SuperLaser- 
Spool automatically manages the entire 
printing process while you work. 

WORKS WITH ANY AI^PLE* PRINTER. 

SuperLaserSpool can print to the LaserWriter 
and ImageWriter~ (either direct-connect or 
AppleTalk *^connected). 

INCREDIBLY COMPACF. Other spoolers 
require so much storage space that a hard 
disk is essential. Not so with SuperLaser- 
Spool. You can use it with floppy- disk 
systems because its files are so compact. 



DOWNLOADED FONTS, 
Unlike most of its com- 
petitors, SuperLaser- 
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that have multiple 
downloaded fonts. 

EASY TO USE. With 
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can view all the jobs in 
the print queue, change 
their priorities, delete 
jobs, receive on-screen 
help, and check on 
network acti\ity. Your 
spool files are always safe, even if the 
system crashes. 

SuperLaserSpool works with almost all 
Macintosh applications. You can even leave 
and enter different programs without 
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And it’s completely invisible: You can 
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Macw'orld 59 




Great Fonts Make Great Gifts 




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Downloadable Typefaces for 
PostScript® printers. Add 
variety to your expression 
with these elegant faces. 
Easy to install and simple to 
use. Not copy protected. 

Fifteen volumes available, 
with two to six typefaces 
each. $69.95 per volume. 
Free printed samples 



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NEW VERSION 2.0 

• Over two megabytes of 
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• 66 different styles 

• Fonts for text, display, 
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Many large sizes 

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TRADEMARKS: CasadyWore. Fluent Laser Fonts- 

CasodyWare Inc.; Apple. AAaantosh. LaserWriter. 
ImogeWriter- Apple Computer. PostScnpt- Adobe Systems. 



Top Prize $1000 MacConnection Gift Certificate 
Deadline Feb. 14. 1988 — Write or Call for Rules 



Circle 165 on reader service card 



0 QuickDEX" 

The productive alternative to HyperCard™ 



Comparison of QuickDEX and HyperCard’s Rolodex 

QuickDEX 


Slack: 1 

HyperCard: 


• 


Time to Find, Copy. &. Paste 
Name and Address into letter 


11 Sec 


76 Sec 


• 


RAM needed for 300 names 


"yOK 


600K+ 


• 


Bytes for each additional card 


’100 


1 100 


• 


Max Open Decks At One Time 


8 


1 


• 


Works Inside Application as a DA 


YES 


No 


■ 


Print Only New or Changed Cards 


YES 


No 


• 


Supports Modem Auto Dialing 


YES 


Yes 


• 


Works on 512K Mac and up 


YES 


No 




List price is $35. You can purchase QuickDEX from your favorite dealer or 
directly from Greene Inc. (Add $2.50 Shipping and applicable sales tax on 
direct orders.) 



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800 851 1986 Calif. — 800 331 4321 U.S. 
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Steven Levy 




The Plunge 

You know you want a Macintosh II. 
But wouldn't it be wiser to wait? 



Pity the pioneers. Thex'Ve all heard the old 
chestnut about fools rushing in where wise 
men fear to tread. Yet, virtually barefoot, 
they eagerly propel themselves into the 
unknown-and tread, tread, tread. Not a 
sole remains unscathed. Those of us who 
consider ourselves wise men and women 
give those intrepid ones pleasant fare-thee- 
wells and hang out until they return from 
the frontiers. We watch them unravel the 
bandages from their feet. We listen to their 
tales, shudder at their travails, and make 
note of the trails they have blazed. Those 
are trails on w’hich w'e will later travel. 
When they are paved, and there are no 
thorns and stones to bruise our Adidas. 

And what do the pioneers get for their 
troubles? They get to be pioneers. 

1 interrupt this column to make a con- 
fession. When I chose the pioneer meta- 
phor, I noticed that it was sadly tattered. 

And I admit that there was a label reading 
‘Avoid applying this metaphor to anything 
about personal computers...” But after ex- 
haustive examination of the metaphor 
rack, I was forced to use the pioneer mod- 
el-because it so neatly fit my subject. 

You see, my concern here is the ques- 
tion that arises whenever a desirable new 
computer is introduced. Especially the 
Macintosh II, a computer with breathtaking 
powder, hair-raising speed, an ample color 
display, and the ever-popular open archi- 
tecture. Obviously, the machine ratchets 
up the conception of what a .Macintosh is, 
maybe even wiiat a personal computer is, 
by tw'o or three notches. The very exis- 
tence of an object like this can drive a 
certain kind of person wild. ”\bu w'ant to 
know wily’ I w'ant a Mac II now’?” asks early 
buyer Lee Snover, in response to a query 1 
posted on CompuServe, ‘it’s quite simple. 
PURE, UNADULTERATED, ILLOGICAL 
L-U-S-T” 

Lust has its price. History instructs us 
that computers are never so expensive as 




w hen they are first introduced. Price in- 
creases are almost unheard of in the per- 
sonal computer business. But new com- 
puters are doubly expensive, since the first 
units reach the stores in a trickle, and 
stores seldom find it necessary to offer dis- 
counts on those early arrivals. The first 
Macintosh is a good example: people w’ho 
bought the original 128K version at its 
$2495 list later had to spend as much as 



$2000 more to upgrade the machine to the 
level of a Macintosh Plus, which now- has a 
street price of around $1700 new'. 

History also suggests that the first 
computers off a production line do not 
emerge as perfect objects. Flaw's are inevi- 
table. To the dismay of the manufacturer, 
those flaw's are never apparent until the 
machines reach the eager hands of the first 
purchasers. Strike two against premature 
buying. 

(cotuhntes) 



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It’s called dBASE*Mac. 

And it’s the most powerful relational 
database designed for the Macintosh? 

Especially since, unlike other 
databases, you can get that power 

without knowing a thing 
about programming. 
Begin by 
creating 
and 

relating 
your 
files. 

Not just 
linking them, 
but relating them. So w^hen you update 
one file, all your related files will be 
updated. Automatically Immediately 

And remember, with dBASE Mac you 
can do all this without programming. 

With a few clicks of your mouse, 
you can quickly redesign and rearrange 
your files to look at your data in any 
number of ways. Without disrupting it. 

And without any programming. 

Also using the selection of fonts and 
MacDraw-like tools, you can design 
reports from the very simple to the very 
sophisticated. Right on the screen. 

So you’ll know how it looks before you 
print it. 



We’re not talking about just text 
and graphics. With dBASE Mac, you can 
incorporate photos of people, parts and 
places into your database. 

You can even import data from 
Ashton-Tate’s dBASE III PLUSrdBASE IIi: 
or dBASE II,* as well as ASCII files. 

All without programming. 

And all with the help of Macintosh’s 
on-screen prompts and pull-down menus. 

But if you want to go still deeper, 
the powerful dBASE Mac programming 
language will take you into a world 
of power and capability where no 
Macintosh has ever gone before. 

If you would like a demo disk for 
$4.95,* or the name of the dealer nearest 
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For Apple®^ Macintosh Personal Computers 



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freshly introduced computer will never 
hnd general acceptance. Instead of being 
able to outfit their prize with a cornucopia 
of innovative new software and periph- 
erals, the orphaned owners might have to 
hand together in die-hard groups. Witness 
the haunted minions whom you sometimes 
see wearing T-shirts that read “Lisa Lives.” 

Treacherous ground, indeed. Much 
like the uiTcharted land that awaited our 
ancestors more than a century ago. This 
was land that would inevitahh^ he explored 
and tamed-but somebody bad to do it 
first. Thus the ineluctability of our meta- 
phor. The Macintosh II will never be the 
success it deserves to be unless volunteers 
risk being early buyers. Their fonitude-or 
foolishness-will enable everyday power 
users and workstation jockeys to eventu- 
ally buy their Mac IIs when the comiTuter s 
viability is beyond que.stion. 

How the Webb Was Won 

By the time you read these words, that 
viability may well have been achieved. 
Stores should have ample inventories of 
Macintosh Ils-complete systems with color 
monitors, extra Random Access Memory 
(RAM), high-capacity hard disk drives, a se- 
lection of circuit boards to plug into the six 
internal slots, and shelves of updated soft- 
ware guaranteed to run on the computer 
In other words, the Macintosh II world 
should he a bustling new outpost of civili- 
zation. But as 1 write this, in the heat of the 
summer, it is Frontier Days in Mac 11 land. 
Only in the past month has one been able 
to stroll into a computer store and examine 
a unit. Even so, at the Computerland I vis- 
ited the other day, the salesperson kept 
referring to the tiling as an “Apple II.” I 
chalked it up to unfamiliarity. 

The first Macintosh IIs were shipped 
on April 29. The very first one was deliv- 
ered in May to Dick Webb, an audit jiartner 
of the Peat, Marwick, .Mitchell accounting 
firm. Peat Marwick earned its pioneer 
spurs long ago, having ordered 3500 Mac 
intoshes before the original Mac first 
shipped. “We wanted them as quickly as 
we could get them,” says Webb, who is 
quite pleased with the 50 Mac Us iliai had 
arrived by summer. He figures tliat the 
larger screen size alone makes the Macin- 
tosh II cost-effective for the computer sci- 
entists at Peat Marwick who have taken 
gleeful possession of the computers. 
Though the actual auditors at the firm will 
stick to the more portable Mac SEs, Webb 

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says that the Mac I Is are seeing service not 
only as software development tools, but as 
secretarial workstations as well. 

Still, it is perhaps instructi\<^ that Dick 
Webb’s own Mac II, the first one off the 
line, now rests at home, where Webb uses 
it mainly to monitor electronic mail. In his 
office, he relies on a trusty SE. This may be 
more because of Webbs fondne.ss for the 
original Macintoshs compact design than 
because of any dissatisfaction with the new 
version s capabilities: if there were risks 
to buying early, Webb has suffered them. 
Yet he says, “I don’t think we Ve had a 
machine fail.” 

What Bugs Mac II 

What, no downside? Could it be that 
the Mac II is domesticated upon release? 
Well, not exactly. There is, first of all, the 
price issue. True, since the Macintosh II 
runs man)' important programs of the in- 
dustry’s most impressive software base 
with unprecedented power and speed, it 
begins earning its keep immediately. But 
that initial investment is quite .steep. 

Two of the three dealers I spoke to 
have received so few units of the Macin- 
tosh II that they have seen no need to 
budge a buck from a system price that runs 
between $6000 and $8000. The one store 
that did discount wound up shaving $700 
off the price of a $7000 configuration. Not 
bad, but small change compared to the dis- 
counts that will arise during the competi- 
tive Christmas sale days. Of course, in a 
year or so, the retail price of a reasonably 
loaded Mac 11 system will undoubtedly 
approach the $5000 mark. 

Still, for those who want a Mac II now, 
price is less a consideration than getting in 
on the ground floor. They want to sign up 
for the excitement of being a pioneer, 
which this powerful machine provides 
in spades. But it also provides some 
headaches. 

Here are some of the biggest prob- 
lems in the early days of the Macintosh II. 

■ No one was able to buy the much- 
touted Apple color monitor. Apple had con- 
tracted with Sony to build these $1000 
wonders, but months after the Mac II 
shipped, the monitors were not available 
for love or money. The reasons for this fail- 
ure were subject to healed rumor, but at 
lea.st part of the problem was a miscalcula- 
tion on Apple s part. The company some- 
how figured that most buyers of the Mac II 
(a machine so identified with full-color ca- 
pability that some referred to it as “the col- 

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systems with black-and-white displays. 

The initial orders, overwhelmingly for 
color monitors, put the lie to that a.ssump- 
tion. Early Macintosh II buyers were told 
that they might have to wait months for 
their monitors. This dissuaded some, 
but others, with true pioneer verve, 
pressed on. Some chose to buy e.xisting 
high-re.solution monitors, .some of which 
were built primarily for ii.se with IBM PC- 
compatible computers. Most popular 
seemed to be the Sony Model 1302, which 
reputedly would use tlie same picture tube 
as the Apple model. The user-group net- 
works were suddenly ablaze with hints on 
making custom cables to hook 1302s to 
Mac lls. 

But that approach might be a trail best 
not blazed, since the Son\' 1302 has much 
less demanding specifications than the 
specially designed Apple monitor. Like- 
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of its own to sell-w'as sending its dealers 
instructions on how’ to hook up NEC Multi- 
Syncs for Macintosh II customers. Only in 
August did Apple offer Mac II bux’ers the 
chance to take home monochrome moni- 
tors and then exchange them for color 
monitors when they eventually appear. 

■ Apple was unable to supply ade- 
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the measly megabyte supplied in the basic 
Mac II unit. One reason has something to 
do with the fact that Mac 11 memory chips 
run at a different speed from the chips 
used in the SE. In any ca.se, I was interested 
to hear a dealer inform me that “if anyone 
tells \'ou that they have RAM chips for the 
Mac II, they’re lying.” I felt bad for those 
power-hungry pioneers-a Mac II with only 
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■ Some Macintosh softw’are didn’t 
w'ork on the Mac II. Nor did the dri\'ers for 
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ment on the back and replace the battery, 
for under $5. But the Macintosh II has an 
unorthodox approach to its lithium bat- 
tery. It is actually soldered to the system 
board. Those without degrees in micro- 
circuitry would be best advised not to 
mess with it. 

Wait-it gets worse. On the Mac II, the 
battery’s tasks not only include keeping 
track of the time, date, and various settings 
while the power is off; a live battery is es- 
sential to the process of turning on the 
machine. So a dead battery means a dead 
computer. In theory a battery is good for 
seven years, but as one Apple engineer told 
me, “No one really knows how long it will 
last.” This fellow' guessed that w'iih the level 
of field service being what it is, eventually 
people with dead batteries will take their 
inert Mac IIs to their dealers, who w'ill 
remedy the problem by replacing the en- 
tire system board-several hundred dollars 
for a worn-out, low'-cost part. 

No Pain, No Gain 

You’re reading this in November, of 
course, and all but the last problem is ex- 
pected to be resolved. (Apple has been 
holding firm to the contention that the sol- 
dered-in battery is more feature than fail- 



ure.) But the pioneers had to cope! Some 
of them did it with a fervor that implied 
that overcoming hardships w'as as impor- 
tant to these folks as enjoying the pleasures 
of this neat new machine. For instance, one 
chap told me of a triumphant cross-country 
search that culminated in locating the one 
store in the country that provided a cable 
to connect a certain monitor to his Mac II. 
Or take the case of the enterprising hacker 
who sat dow'n and wrote a patch that made 
Microsoft Works, previously a Mac II wash- 
out, wx)i'k on the new^ machine. The patch 
W'as in circulation for some time before 
somebody told Microsoft of its existence. 

So be grateful to the pioneers-but 
don’t w’orry too much about them. When 
the Macintosh II reaches its final perch on 
the pinnacle of the personal computer 
w'orld, the early buyers wilTbe sure to re- 
mind us of their perspicacity. Whether or 
not it was really w'orth the quick purchase, 
only they will be able to answ'er. But before 
you line up to be one of the first buyers of 
the Macintosh III, wiienever that model 
show's up, please consider this electronic 
missive I received from Andy Reese, a 
candid pioneer from Texas: 

“I ordered a Mac II one week [after its 
introduction and] took delivery of it in late 
June. As President of our user group, I have 



usually taken the leap on the latest technol- 
ogy, serving as a guinea pig for our mem- 
bers.... The Mac II 1 bought had one floppy, 
no hard disk, and a monochrome monitor 
(on loan from the dealer until the color 
one comes in). The theory behind no hard 
disk was that I w'ould get a 45MB MacBot- 
tom to connect to the Mac II at the office 
and then take home to use on the SE at 
night. Good theory... I soon discovered 
myself that the 45MB w'ill not work on the 
Mac II [yet). I set up the MacBottom and am 
using it on the SE for now'. 

“All this has put quite a damper on my 
enthusiasm for the Mac II. I use it as a ter- 
minal emulator at w'ork. That is all it has 
been doing for the last two w'eeks. 

“When I am asked for advice on w'hat 
machine to buy, I find out w'hat kind of 
user the person is. If they are first-time 
purchasers, I strongly steer them aw'ay 
from the Mac II toward the SE. If they are 
pow'er users, I tell them that the machine is 
nice, but they should wait for the price to 
drop or for many of the problems to be 
resolved first.’’ 

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product in the nation's supenmwkets. 
Though ScuUey has concent )xited on 
business management, his original 
ntajor at Brown University teas in ai'chi- 
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continues, hi his new book, Odyssey: 

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Pepsi— leading it to surpass rival Coca- 
Cola-to what you want to accomplish 
at Apple? 

The strategy was somewhat similar. Pepsi 
was numher two in the .soft drink industry, 
hut our goal was never to take first place by- 
taking existing customers from Coke. In- 
.stead of a strategy that recjuired the market 
leader to fail, we decided to take market 
share from all the other .soft drink compan- 
ies. We worked to create new markets and 
get more than our fair share of the growth 
with innovations in advertising, packaging, 
and merchandising. \X^ knew Coke would 
follow suit, so we had to keep innovating. 

At Apple, we want a share of the busine.ss 
market, but not by taking over IFTM's mar- 
kets. We want to create new markets and 
get a large share of this growth. Apple has 
to leverage technical innovations and play 
a major role in shaping the direction of our 
industry. That’s been our strategy for the 
last two years. 

Why were you cliosen to come to Apple? 

I have always been intrigued by powerful 
ideas. Steve Jobs and I hit it off well. It 
seemed that between the two of us we had 
the combination of talents needed to make 
Apple great in the future. I had the market- 
ing and business experience, and Steve had 
the technology and dreams. 1 was as excited 
as he was in terms of what Apple could be. 

Your book Odyssey deals with both 
dreams and business. 

I wanted to write a diffemnt kind of busi- 
ness book. Much of it is a narrative of my 
adventure in going from Pepsi to A|:>ple, 
and my relationship with Steve Jobs and 
others along the way It’s al.so a book about 
my mi.stakes and what 1 learned from them. 
In other parts of the book, I project my.self 



and Apple into the 21st century. There may 
be a second Renaissance in the Tnited 
States brought about by a combination of 
global competition, threats to America’s af- 
lUient middle class, and opportunities for 
individual innovation. I talk about informa- 
tion technology and how I believe it will af- 
fect schools and the economy by nurturing 
a new age of the individual. There are 
some warnings about our tendencies to fo- 
cus on the short term, which could bring 
on crisis and important changes. But the 
book ends on an optimistic note, with the 
recognition that crisis can produce many- 
constructive changes-including adoption 
of a longer-term perspective. 

Does Apple need to become a more diver- 
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same sense as General Electric or Hughes? 

Our long-term vision at Apple is still very 
“personal computing." We see the comput- 
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emphasis of computing wall shift steadily 
toward w'hat Apple is already good at. The 
epicenter of technology shifted in the 
1980s from the mainframe to networks. 
We’re organizing and leading a shift to the 
u.ser. To move toward that goal, we are 
committing an amount of resources that is 
large by any standard. We are already 
spending hundreds of millions of dollars 
on research and development. That’s a 
large percentage of revenue. 

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One of the fears raised in the late 1970s 
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lack of access to information. Is Apple 
concerned about that? 

Apple has done a lot to make accessing in- 
formation more affordable, but we have to 
reshape our outlook still more. We can 
draw distinctions between information 
and knowledge, which is the real objective. 
We must make knowledge itself more ac- 
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1 see two important shifts early in the 
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will be more important than in the 20th 
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main role in society back to the individual. 
Knowledge is power, and making more 
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shifted, and in the next century the focus 
will not he on any single nation, but will 
move toward a global economy, a fluid net- 
work of resources and information. The is- 
sue is how the US. will fit into this network. 

What is your vision of Apple’s 21st- 
century technology? 

All the major technologies to build revolu- 
tionary machines for the 21st century exist 
today or will he in motion by the end of 
the 1980s. The performance of the technol- 
ogies will improve dramatically. Micro- 
processors of the 21st century will be 100 
times faster, yet cost the same as today’s. 
They will process the software loaded with 
artificial intelligence, sophisticated 3-D im- 
age processing, high-resolution animation, 
speech recognition, and voice synthesis. 



Full-motion video-with image quality far 
better than current television sets-will be 
what computer users routinely expect. 

The problem is the growth of informa- 
tion; the amount of information doubles 
every two years. So the ultimate aim of 
computers will not be to create more infor- 
mation. We need the ability to navigate in 
real time across vast expanses of informa- 
tion. So it is especially important that we 
develop a new perspective. Information is 
an interim step to the ultimate goal of 
knowledge. We have an opportunity in the 
early 21st century to create breakthrough 
products as important to people then as 
movable type was to people in the begin- 
ning of the Renaissance. 

After Gutenberg developed movable 
type, it took more than a century of devel- 
opment before it had an impact on society. 
In 1360, 1 out of every 100 Europeans could 
read, hut by 1500, 80 out of every 100 could 
read. Gutenberg’s invention democratized 
knowledge in the process. 

Apple’s near-term challenge is to cre- 
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tal to us in the next century. 

What is your vision of the 21st-century 
personal computer? 

I developed a term, Knowledge Navigator, 
to describe it. While today’s computers 
take users to the doorsteps of libraries and 
institutions, the Knowledge Navigator will 
drive us through them. By the 21st century, 
we will have the installed base to make the 
computer a mass personalized knowledge- 
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The physical appearance of the 21st- 
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Will you he the one to build the Knowl- 
edge Navigator at Apple? 

My sen.se is that we are doing the right 
things in order to be able to build the 2Lst- 
century personal computer. I'm .satisfied 
wath Apple’s direction, w^hich is mostly 
w'hai a CEO is concerned wath. When I 
came here we were looking 2 to 3 years 
ahead; now' w'e’re looking 15 years ahead. 
We bring together people w'ho have .spe- 
cial talents-they don’t have to be in com- 
puter science. But we want to attract the 
best people, like Jean-Louis Ga.ssee, Larry 
Tesler, and others who know' computers 
and have a commitment to this vision. That 
is how' to build an organization that wall 
make the Knowledge Navigator the legiti- 
mate de.scendent of the Macintosh. 

Apple’s current reorganization looks 
more extensive than the infamous one of 
June 1985. 

Yes. We made as many changes in the first 
six months of this year as w'e made in all of 
1985. The difference is that in 1985 w'e were 
in a crisis, and now we are changing to take 
advantage of our opportunities. It is part of 
our shift at Apple in the last two years, 
from selling primarily to consumers and 
educators to new' areas of focus, jTrimarily 
increasing busine.ss .sales. 

Many developers originally questioned 
Apple’s intent to move (Jaris out onto its 
own. Are you actually accelerating the 
pace of independence for (’laris? 

We intended to do that from the start. It is a 
.sort of prototype for things we hope to do. 
As opportunities appear, w'e wall .spin out 
busine.sses to fill gaps in the market that 
are strategically important. If Apple is to be 
on the leading edge, things in it and its in- 
frastructure must change too. That’s why 
w'e picked our executive vice-president and 

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Why have you compared the computer in- 
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• Installation of Back to Basics is 
painless — read only seven pages in 
the manual and spend 30 minutes 
using our screen menus. 

• If you need to brush up on your 
accounting, use our accounting primer 
and tutori^, written by Harvard 
Business School Professor, Robert N. 
Anthony, plus our business section on 
how to h^dle everyday accounting 
dilemmas. 

$199 

Back to Basics Accounting System 
became a best seller priced at $525. 
Now, as a result of reduced expenses, 
we are able to offer all three modules 
— General Ledger, Accounts Receivable 
and Accounts Payable — in a complete 
set for just $199. 

Proven Power 

Peachtree has long been the first 
name in accounting software and the 
powerful features we’ve included in 
Back to Basics prove we understand 
what you’re looking for. 

• Complete integration of General 
Ledger with Accounts Receivable and 
Accounts Payable. 



• Single transaction entries up to 
$999,999.99 and year-to-date totals up 
to $21,000,000. 

• Journals and reports updated as 
each transaction is record^. 

• Void transaction facility auto- 
matically creates reversing entry. 

• More than 30 reports can be 
viewed on screen or printed. 

Macintosh Specific 

Back to Basics was written 
specifically for the Apple Macintosh, 
not simply converted from another 
computer version. It uses the 
Macintosh interface (mouse and visual 
icons) for system operation and groups 
functions into on-screen “file drawers’’ 
for organization and ease of use. 

Back to Basics was a featured 
accounting system in Apple’s initial ads 
for the Macintosh and is backed by 
Peachtree’s outstanding support, 
labeled by InfoWorld as “the finest in 
the industry’’. Support is available as 
you need it, at a nominal charge 
directly from Peachtree or through our 
network of local authorized supf>ort 
centers. 

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When you purchase Back to Basics 
directly from Peachtree Software 
you’re protected with a 30-day, money 
back guarantee (an option even the 
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don’t offer). 

If you’re not satisfied, simply return 
the complete product in saleable 
condition within 30 days and your 



purchase price will be 
promptly refunded. For full 
details, call the toll-free 
telephone number below. 

Invoicing Coming Soon 
Back to Basics Invoicing 
will soon be available for the 
Apple Macintosh at an 
introductory price of $95. 
Hardware Specifications 
• IBM Personal Computer, 
PC/XT, PC/AT with two floppy 
disk drives or one floppy disk 
drive and a hard disk. 

• Apple II + , He, lie, Ilgs with 128K 
and two disk drivc* *s or hard disk. 

• Apple Macintosh 512K or Plus 
with two disk drivers or hard disk. 



Features That Made Back to 
Basics A Best Seller 



GENERAL LEDGER 

• On-line help dispbyx 
Chart of Accounts. 

• MTD and YTD show on 
income statements. 

• Allows automatic 
Journal entries. 

• Check processinK and 
piintinK capability through 
Cash Disbursements 

• Optional cost <»f sales 
ranges. 

• User modiflahlr Chan of 
Acxounis included. 

• Alkiws up to 3 checking 
accounts. 

• Up to It) depanmenis 
with separate income 
statements. 

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABI.E 

• Calculates receivables on 
balance forward basis. 

• Prints .statements and 
mailing labels. 

• Allows auiumaiic 
posting to General ledger 

• Acc^s panial 
payments 

• Olculatt'S finance 
tiiarges. 



• Up tiHdate customer 
information can he scrolled 
for review at any time. 

• Customer IDs can be 
alpha or numeric. 

• Verifies customer credit 
limit 

• Calculates up to 3 sales 
taxes per entry 
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 

• Up to 10 vendor 
payment terms 

• Calculates cash 
discounts 

• Accepts panial paymcnt.s 

• Automatic posting to 
(Jeneral Ijcdger. 

• Prims vendor mailing 
laticLs 

• Up-ti>-daic vendor 
information can be scrolled 
for review at any lime. 

• Customer ID'S can he 
alpha or numeric. 

• Prints computer checks 
or prtKcsses hand-w'ritten 
checks. 

• Invoices automatically 
or manually selected for 
payment. 



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indenurk of Apple 
Computer, Inc. 
Macintosh is a trade- 
mark of Macintosh 
I^tboratory, Inc. licensed 
to Apple Computer, Inc. 
and is used with the 
express permission 
of its owner. 



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Verbatim 




HyperCard will stimulate 
tremendous software 
development. 



What are the implications of HyperCard 
for user programmability? 

HyperCard is an extraordinary and innova- 
tive new Macintosh technology. It s real Iv- 
an erector set of authoring tools to allow 
both experienced and beginning program- 
mers to organize information in highly in- 
tuitive and unstructured ways. It s part of 
the dream to make |:>ersonal computing 
very, very personal. The product could 
have an impact more significant than Mi- 
crosoft BASIC did in the 1970s for the Ap- 
ple 11. Bill Atkinson worked on it for two 
years. His work resulted in a product that 
will promote a new way of organizing 
thought. 

We hope it becomes a root technok)gy 
that shows up in a very advanced form in 
our personal computers of the next centu- 
ry. It s already on a track that will make 
it a great development environment for 
CD ROM. 

How do MacApp and HypetCard compare? 

When the Mac was introduced there was 
no easy way to progrtim the machine. By 
making the Macintosh easy for users we 
had to make it harder for developers. It 
took a while before programming tools 
were available. You had to develop on a 
VAX or a Lisa to create Mac programs, a 
situation similar to Microsoft’s OS/2 today. 

In the case of MacApp we took object- 
oriented programming, like Alan Kay’s 
SmallTalk, and tried to make the process 
of programming better. 

MacApp is an extension of application 
generators that employ the sort of concepts 
envisioned in SmalTlalk for programming 
without code. Only icon representations 
on the screen are linked together. This is 



extremely attractive in that it decreases the 
time it takes to [:)rogram the Mac. It gives 
access to the Toolbox, which is extremely 
rich, with over 400 calls available to the 
developer. 

1 lyper lalk is the language for Hyper- 
Card, which is a new metaphor Ibr pro- 
gramming the Mac. The metai'>hor is stacks 
of cards, and each card can contain text, 
graphics, sound, or commands. You can 
link a card to any other card. This opens up 
a new group of people to ideas that have 
been discussed since Ted Nelson conceived 
Hypermedia in the 1960s. 

It means that you can develop aj:)plica- 
tions that let you use information in a natu- 
ral way while taking advantage of the Mac's 
power, as opposed to using inibrmation in 
the way that the computer wants you to. All 
major breakthroughs in personal comput- 
ing have shared this: they let you accom- 
plish in a more efficient manner something 
you were already doing. My sense is that 
HyperCard \v\W stimulate tremendous soft- 
w'are develoj'iment. 

What about Apple’s fax modem and other 
new products? 

Adding those products is a clear indication 
that we are taking desktop publishing tech- 
nology to higher levels. The long-term 
direction is to do everything from text 
design to the entire design process. 

The fax modem we’ve announced is 
an important component of our plan. It 
turns a Macintosh into a facsimile station, 
which moves documents around quickly. 
It’s not always |:)ractical to put documents 
in a binder and send them by federal Ex- 
press; you need to transmit them over 
long-distance networks as easily as putting 
text in Telex or sending it over E-mail. 

When we combine communications 
and desktop publishing so that their capa- 



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The Adobe Type Library 
Gives You More Ways 
To Make A Difference. 

Now the Adobe Type Library is easier than 
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Here are new faces you can order 
tcKiay. Each package contains several 
typefaces from the families listed below. 

E3 News Gothic 
En ITCTifliuiy 

ES Cooper Black 
Ea STENCIL Scnc^ Hobo 

EQ AschBIl University Qoman ROVCJQ 

Ea Carta 

And here are more downloadable Adobe 
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own type library. 

D Palatino® 

Qj ITC Bookman® 

B l^C ZAipf Chancery" fKfedium Itafic 
ITC Zapf Dingbats® +51^ 4 ’’^’ a 
Q ITC Avant Garde Gothic® 

B New Century Schoolbook 
B Optima® 

B ITC Souvenir® 

B ITC Lubalin Graph® 

B ITC Gara monel® 
m rrc American Typewriter " 

ITG MACIilNE 
m ITC Benguiat® 

ITC Friz Quad rata 
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ED Helvetica® Condensed 
ED Trump Mediaeval® 

B Melior® 

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ED ITC Korinna® 

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m 

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m Prestige Elite 
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In California, (800) 85-Adobc. Make a 
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82 November 1987 




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At Adobe, wnu mid computer work ns a 
team to cmft type mie to the oHjjiuals. 

Because at Adobe, we 
still strive to meet time- 
honored standards. 

A good example is the 
Adobe Type Library. 

The Adobe Type Librar>^ 
is created in a modern set- 
ting, using sophisticated 
computer software. And 



lb eusuiY that each tyfie fhee in the Adobe 
Lilrrmy is tme to the onjjhinl, care- 
fully study a mde rmiqe of histone type 
nfcmice mntenal. 

the people who pertbrm 
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'‘punch cutters’’ of another 
era . . . each letter in a type 
family is painstakingly 
examined, manipulated 
and refined until, at last, 
its as close to the original 
as humanly possible. 

Indeed, the human fac- 
tor, even in a highly tech- 
nical environment, is the 



rhcm\nht, eun\\ mid omnll npjknrnuce 
of a letter is pnhistakitijily exmiiiued, 
mmiipulated mid refined by Adobe 
craft smai iisiujj specialized sqf hiHire. 



driving force in creating 
a ty'pe library that is true 
to the originals. 

Naturally, this takes 
time. But it!s time well 
spent because you can be 
sure that each Adobe 
typeface not only looks 
and feels like the original, 
it reproduces perfectly. 



Ask for our fire cnleudm\^^lylH: is to Rend.'' 
It illustrates many fine points on the art 
of type, desiqn, and craftsmanship. Just 
call AdolK at 415-S52-0271. 

of hours practicing an ait 
that has been performed 
for centuries. 

Craftsmanship does have 
a place in the electronic 
age. Because at Adobe we 
practice it eveiy day. 



SYSTEMS INCORPORATED 

Adobe Type Libraiy 
for Pos rScRl VT Printers. 
The Oriiiiinal. 



In today’s computerized 
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Rejimdless of type size or ir solution of the 
Pos t SCRirrpnntiT you use, Adobe ty/H’ 
faces mr ahmys tnic to the orijiinals. 

regardless of the resolution 
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We often do not realize 
how much time is spent 
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Adobe, we spend hundreds 



is to re^. 



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Canvas by Deneba Software 

Canvas is an new graphics program 
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Canvas 125, 



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myDiskLabeler w/ LaserWriter Option 


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Apple Computer MacPascal 


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Microsoft Microsoft Basic Interpreter 3.0 


64. 


Borland Turbo Pascal 


59. 


Microsoft Basic Compiler 1.0 


119. 


Turbo Pascal Database Toolbox 


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Microsoft Fortran Compiler 2.2 


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Turbo Pascal Tutor 


49. 


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79. 


Consulair 




CAPP’ for Lightspeed C 


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Macintosh 68000 Development System 


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TML Systems TML Pascal V2.0 


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Communications Software 

Apple Computer MacTerminal 99. Think Technologies, Inc. 

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Specials good through November 30, 1987 




Numeric-Turbo by 
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Now you can cut your data input time 
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SYSTAT 3.1 by SYSTAT, Inc. 




SYSTA T 3,1 is the most comprehensive 
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ComSene 125. 



Laser by Postcraft International Inc. 



MacMoney by Survivor Software Ltd. 



Do you know how much you 
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how much that dog has cost 
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amounts over up to eight categor- 
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export information for further 
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create a simple or complex system 
- you’re the boss - it’s your money. 

MacMoney 41. 



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(box of 10) 


16. 


Sony 3'/^' DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 


19. 


Fuji 316' SS/ DD Disks (box of 10) 


14. 


Fuji 3!6' DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 


20. 


Maxell 3!6' SS/ DD DUks (box of 10) 


13. 


Maxell 3J6' DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 


20. 


Verbatim 3l6'SS/DD Disks (box of 10) 


13. 


Verbatim 3'A' DS/ DD Disks (box of 10) 


20. 


3M 316' SS/ DD Disks (box of 10) 


14. 


3M 316' DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 


20. 


C.ltoh Color Disks SS/DD (box of 10) 


22. 


C.ltoh Color Disks DS/DD (box of 10) 


25. 


Modems 












Hayes Microcomputing 




Prometheus 




Smartmodem I2()0 


299. 


Promodem 1200 




Smartmodem 1200 Mac 




(Hayes Compatible) Special 229. 


w/Smaricom 11 & Cable 


359. 


Promodem 2400 




Smartmodem 2400 


449. 


(Hayes Compatible) Special 299. 


Transel IOOO-I28K 


269. 


Mac Pack w/Procom M and Cable 




Transel IOOO-512K 


359. 


(Specify Mac or MacPIus) 


49. 


Transel 1000 Mac Accessory Kit 


29. 


U.S. Robotics 




InterBridge 




Courier 1200 (Hayes Compatible) 


199. 


(Connect Appletalk Networks) 


599. 


Courier 2400 (Hayes Compatible) 


349. 


Migent 




Courier 2400E (Haves Compatible) 


409. 


Migcnt Pocket Modem 




Courier HST 9600’ 




(ext. 500/1200 Baud) 


169. 


(Hayes Compatible) 


689. 



800 / 832-3201 

Customer Service (203) 378-3662 
Monday thru Friday 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. 

Saturdays 10 A.M. to 6 P. M. (Eastern Time) 

OUR POLICIES 

• We accept MASTERCARD and VISA with no added surcharge. 

• Your credit card is not charged until we ship. 

• If we must ship a partial order the shipment that completes the order is 
sent freight free. 

• If you are ordering by mail, we accept private and company checks. With 
MASTERCARD and VISA orders include card number and expiration 
date. Connecticut residents add 7.5% sales tax. 

• Locations more than 1 day away shipped via Airborne Express Next- 
Day-Air Service. 

• Sorry, we cannot accept COD orders. 

SHIPPING 

• Contiguoin 48 United States & Puerto Rico: Add $3.00 per order to cover 
Airborne Express Next-Day-Air Service. APO/FPO orders shipped 1st Class 
Mail (add 5% $5.00 Min charge). Alaska, Hawaii and Outside Continental 
US: call or write for information. 

RETURNS 

• Defective software will be replaced immediately by the same item. Defective 
hardware will be replaced or repaired at our own discretion. Call customer 
service at (205)578-5662 to obtain a Return Authorization Number before 
returning goods for replacement. Products purchased in error subject to a 
20% restocking fee. 

All items subject to availability. Prices subject to change without notice. 

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DataBase Management 












Blythe Software 




Forethought FileMaker Plus 


159. 


Omnis 3 Plus 


259. 


Microsoft Microsoft File 1.05 


110. 


Omnis 3 Plus Multi-User 




Odesta Double Helix 


275. 


(iMacServe, Tops Network. 




Multi-User Heli.\ 


439. 


Corvus, or Appleshare Network) 


499. 


I’roVUE Development 




Borland 




OverVUE2.l 


149. 


Reflex Plus 


Call 


Software Discoveries 




Chang Laboratories 




MergeWrite 


32. 


C.A.T. Conlacts*Activities»Time 


239. 


Record Holder Plus 


45. 



Business Software 



Apple Computer MacProJect 


1 59. Lotus Jazz (Version I. A) 


179. 


Bravo Technologies MacCalc 


85. Micro Planning Software 




Borland Eureka! The Solver 


129. Micro Planner Plus 


299. 


Cricket Software 


Microsoft 




Cricket Graph 


125. Microsoft Works 1.0 


189. 


Data Tailor 


Microsoft Multiplan l.ll 


110. 


Trapeze 2.0 (Spreadsheet /Color 


Microsoft Chan 1.02 


72. 


Report Generator) 


169. Microsoft Excel 1.04 


224. 


Deneba Software Comment 


Micro-Systems Software 




(Attach Electronic Notes to Files) 


64. Analyze! (New Spreadsheet) 


99. 


Forethought PowerPoint 


229. Satori Software 




Layered 


Legal Billing 


359. 


Notes For Excel, Jazz, PageMaker, 


Legal Billing 11 


519. 


Microsoft Works or Word 3.0 (each) 


42. Project Billing 


429. 


Legboft/Nolo Press 


Bulk Mailer 3.0 


89. 


WillWriter V2.0 


31. Bulk Mailer Plus 3.0 


219. 


Word & Outline Processors 






Ann Arbor Softworks 


MindVVork Software 




FullWrite Professional 


169. MindWrile l.l 


179. 


Apple Computer MaeWrite 


99. OWL International 




Firebird Licensees 


Guide 


79. 


Laser Author 


105. Guide Envelope System 


99. 


Living Videotex! More 


149. Symmetry Acta VI.2 


38. 


Microsoft Microsoft Word 3.01 


239. T/Maker Company WriteNow 


98. 


Spelling & Grammar Checkers 




Aegb Development 
Doug Clapp’s Word Tools 


Coach Merriam Webster’s Thesaurus 2.0 
42. Lundeen &. Associates 


39. 



A.L.P. Systems MacProof 3.0 
(Requires MacPlus) 99. 

Batteries Included 

Thunder! (Interactive Spelling Checker) 32. 

Denebi Software 
Spelling Coach 3.0 

( Webster's! Medical/ Legal! H}’phenation) 64. 
Spelling Coach 3.0 Professional 
(Adds Definitions & Thesaurus) 129. 



WorksPlus Spell 
.Mkrolytics, Inc. 

Word Finder (Synonym Finder) 
Working Software, Inc. 

Spellswell Spelling Checker 
& Proofreader 2.0 
Spellswell Medical Dictionary 
(35,000 Medical Terms) 

Lookup (Makes Spelling Suggestions) 



Desktop Publishing 



Aldus Corporation PageMaker 
Boston Publishing Systems 
The MacPublisher III 
Letraset Ready, Set, Go! 4.0 
Postcraft International, Inc. 
Laser Fx 

(Typographical Special Effects 
for Desktop Publishing) 



399. 

139. 

289. 



Special 1 19. 



Accounting Packages 



38. 

39. 



44. 



58. 

32. 



Quark, Inc. 

QuarkXPress 499. 

Solutions, International 
Glue (Adds "Print to Disk " Capability) 4 1 . 

Super Glue (Graphics 

Integration Package) 59. 

Target Software 

Scoop 399. 



Chang Labs 

New Enhanced Version III Modules! 




Digital. Etc. 

Thrbo Maccouniant V2.0 


259. 


Rags to Riches GL, AR, or AP 


125. 


Migent In House Accountant 


99. 


Rags to Riches Three Pack- 




Monogram Dollars & Sense 


81. 


(GL/AR/AP) 


299. 


Peachtree 




Inventory Control 


243. 


Back To Basics Three Pack 




Professional Billing 


243. 


(GL/AR/AP) 


139. 


Professional Three Pack- 
G L/ Professional Billing/ Payables 


349. 


Sunivor Software MacMoney 
(Financial Planner) 


Special 41. 



Statistics Packages 



Brainpower Systat 

Stat View 512 Plus 1 79. Systat 3.1 (Specify Mac 512 K. 

Cricket Software Staiworks 77. MacPlus, or Mac II) 



Special 459. 




Altsys Corp. FONTastic 


27. 


MacroMind VidcoWorks II 


129. 


FONTaslic Plus 


49. 


Miles Computing 




Fonlographer 2.2 


245. 


Mac The Ripper, Orchestra of Fonts, 




Ann Arbor Softworks Full Paint 


53. 


People-Places-Things, or 




Apple Computer MacPaint 


99. 


Taking Care of Business (each) 


27. 


Broderbund Print Shop 


39. 


Mindscape ComieWorks 


48. 


Casadyware 




GraphieWorks 1.1 


64. 


Fluent Fonts 2.0 (TU’o-Disk Set) 


29. 


Olduvai Software 




Fluent Laser Fonts Vol. 1-15 (ea) 
Deneba Software Canvas 1.0 


48. 


Post-ART (Three Disk Set) 
Silicon Beach Software 


34. 


(Includes Desk Accessory) Special 125. 


SuperPaint 


99. 


Dubl-Click Software 




Silicon Press 


41. 


World Class Fonts! Vol. 1 or Vol. 2 


28. 


Solutions International 




World Class Fonts! (Both Volumes) 


49. 


The Curator (Catalog Your Art) 


95. 


WctPainl Vol. 1 or Vol. 2 


28. 


Springboard Cenificate Maker 


35. 


WetPaint (Both Volumes) 
Enzan-Hoshigumi USA 


49. 


Symmetry PictureBase VI.2 

T/Maker 


44. 


MacCalligraphy 2.0 

Japanese Clip Art Scroll I "Heaven" 


115. 


Click Art Letters 1, Letters 11, Personal 
Graphics, Publications, Effects, 




or Scroll 2 "Earth" 


59. 


Business Image, Holidays or 




Japanese Clip Art “Borders” Scroll 


72. 


Christian Images (each) 


28. 


LaserWare, Inc. LaserPaint 


319. 


Click Art Laser Fonts: Plymouth, 




LaserWorks 


199. 


Bombay, or Seville (each) 


46. 



CAD Products 



Apple Computer MacDraw 

Challenger Software 

Mac 3D (Enhanced Version 2.0) 

Cricket Software 

Cricket Draw 



159. Enabling Technologies Easy 3D 
Professional 3D 
1 19. Innovative Data Design 

MacDraft (Updated Version 1.2) 
175. Silicon Beach Software Super 3D 



69. 

199. 

159. 

199. 



Educational/Creative Software 



Baron’s Baron’s SAT 


35. 


Micro: Maps 




Bogas Productions Studio Session 


59. 


MacAtlas Paint Version 




Broderbund Sensei Geometry 


64. 


(MacPaint Format) 


32. 


Calculus or Physics 


64. 


MacAtlas Professional 




Davidson & Associates Speed Reader 11 


39. 


( PICT/ MacDraw Version ) 


129. 


Math Blaster or Word Attack! 


28. 


Mindscape Perfect Score SAT 




Electronic Arts 




w/The Perfect College 


46. 


Deluxe Music Construction Set V2.0 


63. 


Nordic Software 




1st Byte/ Electronic Arts 




MacKids Educational 




Kid Talk, Speller Bee, 




Programs (each) Special 29. 


First Shapes, or Math Talk 


31. 


Passport Designs 




Mathtalk Fractions, First Letters & 




Passport MIDI Interface 


95. 


Words, or Smoothtalker 


31. 


Master Tracks Pro 


259. 


Great Wave Software 




Rubicon Publishing 




KidsTime orTimeMaslcrs 


28. 


Dinner at Eight-Silver Palate Bundle 


52. 


Concertware+ 4.0 


45. 


Simon & Schuster Typing Tutor IV 


38. 


Concertware^ MIDI 4.0 


95. 


Springboard 




Hayden MusieWorks 


29. 


Early Games for Young Children 


28. 


Score Improvement System for the SAT 


59. 


Easy as ABC 


28. 


Game Software 









Accolade Hard Ball 


24. 


Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy 


19. 


Activision Shanghai or Hacker 11 


24. 


Zork Trilogy' 


45. 


Hacker 


16. 


Microsoft 




Portal 


32. 


Flight Simulator I.O 


32. 


Artworx Bridge 5.0 


20. 


Miles Computing Inc. 




Avalon Hill Mac Pro Football 


30. 


The Fool’s Errand or Downhill Racer 


27. 


Broderbund Ancient Art of War 


27. 


Mindscape 




Bullseye Software 




Balance of Power or 




Fokker TriPlane Flight Simulator 


34. 


Crossword Magic 


32. 


Ferrari Grand Prix 


34. 


Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True 


32. 


Electronic Arts Starfleet I 


37. 


King Of Chicago or Shadow'gate 


32. 


Venture’s Business Simulator 


49. 


The Uninvited or Siboot 


32. 


ChessMaster 2000 or Patton vs Rommel 


30. 


Practical Computer Applications 




Archon, One-On-One, Pinball 




MacGolf 2.0 or MacRacquetball 


36. 


Construction Set, Seven Cities of 




MacCourscs 


34. 


Gold, Software Golden Oldies 




Psion 




or SkyFox (each) 


15. 


Psion Chess (3D & Multi- Lingual) 


31. 


EPYX Winter Games 




Sierra On-Line 




or Sub Battle Simulator 


24. 


Space Quest 


32. 


Hayden Software Sargon HI 


29. 


King’s Quest 1, 11, or 111 (each) 


32. 


Infinity Software, LTD. 




Silicon Beach Software 




Grand Slam Tennis 11 


34. 


Apache Strike or Beyond Dark Castle 


32. 


W'orld Cup Soccer 


27. 


Enchanted Scepters 


21. 


Go 


23. 


Dark Castle 


28. 


Infocom 




World Builder 


41. 


Ballyhoo, Beyond Zork, Bureaucracy, 




Simon & Schuster 




Hollywood Hyjinx, Leather Goddesses 




Star Trek (The Kobayashi Adventure) 


24. 


of Phobos, Moon Mist, Nord & Bert, 




Sir-Tech Mac Wizardry 


35. 


Plundered Hearts, Stationfall, 




Sphere, Inc. 




The Lurking Horror, Trinity, 




GATO, Orbiter, or Falcon 


26. 


or Zork I (each) 


25. 


XOR Software NFL Challenge 


69. 



Verbatim 




DOS machines run 30 minutes 
per day, while the average Mac is 
used 20 2 hours a day. 



bilities are even, say around 1990, there is 
reason to expect that we will add the abili- 
ty to automatically update files in the back- 
ground, communicating to other com- 
puters where the data is stored. 

Several products are missing in action-a 
color monitor, UNIX, and others. What's 
going on? 

We introduced so many products this year 
that it's amazing we got as many out on 
time as we did. The good news is that the 
new Mac is so well received and supported 
by third parties. So if we are short of our 
own color monitors, there are still third- 
party products available. 



UNIX is delayed only by a few months. 
UNIX is so important that we need a ver- 
sion that’s re]:>re.sentative of our style of 
j:>rodLicts. No third party has ever before 
created a simple version of UNIX; maybe 
that's why there are only 250,000 copies of 
it running in the world today. We think the 
real excitement is in bringing good tech- 
nologies within reach of more people. 

For a long time Apple discouraged talk in 
the press about the Macintosh in the con- 
sumer market, yet more than half of our 
readers have a iMac at home. Has this 
policy changed? 

We have made a major effort to ensure that 
people don’t have a misconception about 
the Mac. If it is viewed as a toy, that hurts 
the availablity of powerful applications. We 



look at the home as a place where the Mac 
is used, not at the Mac as a home computer. 

How have large companies taken to the 
Mac? 

Well, we recently completed a study of how' 
our computers are used in business. We 
found that on the average. DOS machines 
are used 30 minutes per day, while the av- 
erage Mac is used 10 1 hours per day. The 
average DOS user runs two applications 
while the Mac user runs six. 

We also found that others .see the im- 
portance of our consistent u.ser interface, 
where all functions such as Cut and Paste, 
Copy, Print, and so on are the same in each 
application. Companies understand that 
training is a large part of total computer 
co.st, and our consistency tends to reduce 
training time. We got into the busine.ss mar 
ket with the Trojan horse of desktop pub- 
lishing; once inside, we're being accepted 
for other things becau.se u.sers prefer the 
Mac. n 

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In Macintosh Graphica 



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I newsletter, usin^ any 

program or desktop 

I publishing package. 

1 he Mae the Knile series (itieliiding h Mae the Ripper 
and -1; An C^rehestra of Fonts) is the best ther<* is. 



liici Venoln, the artist (or Mac the Rippei\ 

is back with Mac the Knife 5; People, 

Plac es cSi I bings— a completely 

banebdrawn collection o( 25 MacPaint files. Frc)m c'la.ssic to modern, 
l.eoitardo da Vitu i to 



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Graphics Software Division 
7741 Alabama Avenue, Suite 2 
Canoga Park, CA 91304 
(818) 34M4II 

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Denmark rethinks 
the computer M)le... 



The original MacTable was the perfect 
place for a Macintosh. Then the Macintosh 
changed shape. So we thought about it again 
and built a new one. 

Introducing the all-new MadTable. Perfect 
form and lunction for the entire Macintosh 
family. 



Cabinet becomes platform Jbr LaserWriter. 
Holds disks, manuals, and afidl 
carton of Jyaper. 



One table fits all 
The new MadTable fits every Mac made, 
be it 128, 512, Plus, SE, or the Macintosh U. 

It h:is a place for everytliing. Hard disk, 
second drive, modem, ke\'l)oard, mouse, 
ImageWriter, and laserWriter. Plus a carton of 
paper. Yet even with a lull complement of gear, 
there’s room to spread out for serious work. 

Ever)' surface interchangeable 
Each of MacTable's four surfaces can be 
independently tilted — and interchanged! You 
can even make it right or left handed. So it 
accommodates any peripheral you’ll ever have 
at comfortable worfong and \iewing angles. 

Stands the test of time 
meticulously built in 



• •• 



again. 



• Strong base and durable materuds 
support heavy equipment. 

• Dimensions: 60l*W.x3(y*D 



To order your Madiible or 
for more information call: 
TOLL FREE 1-800-722-6263 
in M state (206) 881-5751 



Interckingeable surfaces offer 
configuration for ei^^> size Mac. 

Denmtirk, by craftsmen using pure beechwood 
and durable laminates. Its new, sturdy 
design luid quality materials support et^n the 
heaviest equipment. And MadPable is now' a 
new color: Platinum Gray, same as the new 
Macintosh line. 



Matcliing roU-away cabinet 
The new' fiw-standing cabinet (optional) 
is big enough to use as a stand for wur 
LaserWriter or CPU. It features eas)'-^ide 
casters, space for Hill-size binders, and a 
special place in the locking drawer that holds 
over 100 disks upright and secure. 



New lower price 
The new MadTable also has a new price. 
Just $ 269 . Add the sturdy, matching cabinet 
for $129 more (all prices plus shipping and 
handling). And if you’re not satisfied W'ith 
MadTable for any reason, return it for a 
prompt refund (less shipping). 

Before you buy an ordinary table for 
your Macintosh, think again, then choose 
the Danish solution. The new MadTable. 



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Mavhbh (tesix^ fiatent ftetuUng .MacTable is a registered tratiemark ofScandimt'uw Computer Furniture. Inc. 

Apple is a tnuienuirk of, and Macintosh is a trademark Ucensed to, Apple Com/mter, Ittc Price and design subfcct to change uitbout notice 






Head for 

MACWORLD Expo/ 
San Francisco 

January 15-17 

Moscone Center. 

And step on it. 

Hail the nearest taxi and roll on over to 
MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco, the 
original Macintosh computer show. 

Test drive an extraordinary' array of 
hardware, software and peripherals first- 
hand. Weave in and out of traffic. Stop at 



hundreds of exhibits. Attend dynamic sem- 
inars and workshops run by industry' ex- 
perts. Tune up your Macintosh skills. And 
more. 

In three days, under one roof, you’ll 
pick up tips, tricks, techniques, do’s, 
don’ts, how-to’s and what’s news that 
would othen;\dse take weeks to collect. 
And if you register before December 15, 
1987, you’ll save $5. Enough to pay for cab 
fare. 

Keep your hands on 
the wheel, Mac. 

MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco is a 
hands-on, do-it-yourself show. It’s excit- 
ing. It’s challenging. It’s fun. And it’s 
fruitful. 



Create professional-quality business 
graphics — on the spot. Compose your 
own newsletter, ads and brochures. Try^ 
your hand at desktop engineering and 
design. Send or receive messages from 
Mac to Mac. Witness the power of the 
latest Mac programming environments. Do 
all this and more in just three short days. 

There’s something for 
everyone. 

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a sea- 
soned hack or just out for your first drive. 
After three days, you’ll be chock full of 
information on what Macintosh can help 
you do. In the office, in the lab, at school 
or at home. 



Our exhibitors list. (As of August 18, 1987.) A who’s who of people who design, develop and produce hardware, software and peripherals for Macintosh. 3Com Corp.. 5ih Generation Software 
c/o Touchstone, 800 ^fm-are, A.LP. Systems, Inc., Abaton Technology Corp., Acius, Inc., Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Adobe Systems, Inc., Advanced Computer Graphics, Advanced Elec. 
Support Prod., Inc., Affinity Microsystems. Ltd., Aldus Corp., ALSoft, Inc., Altsys Corp., Amcodyne, Inc., Americal Group, Anatex, Ann Arbor Softv.’orks, Apple Computer, Inc., AshtonTate, AST 
Research, Inc., Bering Industries, Inc., Berkeley Macintosh Users Grp. (DMUG), Berkeley Systems Design, Blackhole Technology. Inc., Blowhard Industries, Blyih Sofm-arc, Bogas Produaions. 
Borland International, Boston Computer Society, Broderbund Sofm-are, Inc., Bytc/McGraw-Hill, C.l. Tech International, Inc., Calcomp, Capilano Computing Systems, Ltd., CasadyVi^irc, Inc., CE 
Software, Centram Systems West, Inc., Checkmark Software, Inc., CLARIS, CMS, Cognition Technology Corp., CompServCo, Computer Cover Co., Computer Expressions, Computer Friends, Inc., 
Computer Selection Business Center, Computer Shoppe. Computer Ware, COMTREX, Ltd., Coral Software Corp., Cricket Software, Inc., Datacopy Corp., DataDesk International, DaiaSpace Corp., 
DataViz, Inc., Dayna Communications, Inc., DESl’ Corp., Digital Communications A.ssociates, Dove Computer Corp., Dubl-Click Software, Dynamac Computer Products, Inc., E.I. duPont de Nemours 
& Co. (Inc.), Eastman Kodak Co. (MPAV KO), EDUCOMP, Ehman Engineering, Erez Anzcl Software, Ergotron, Inc., Everex Systems, F.C. Brooks & Co., Farallon Computing, Future Design Software, 
General Computer Co., Great Plains Software, Great >X^ive Software, GW Instruments, Hard & Soft, Inc., Hayden Books/Howard W. Sams & Co., Hayes Microcomputer Products. Inc., Heizer 
Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., High Performance Systems, Inc., I/O Design, Inc., ICOM Simulations, Inc., Icon Review', Imagine Software, Infomax Computers, infosphere, Inc., InfoWorld, 
Innovative Data Design, Inc., Internet, Jasmine Computer Systems, Kamar W’ood Specialties, Kensington Microware Ltd., Kent Marsh Ltd., Kinetics, Inc., La Cie, Language Systems Corp., Layered, 
Inc., Lctraset U.S.A., Levco, Living Videotext, Inc., LoDOWN, Logic Array. Inc., Logic extension Resources, Logical Operations, Lotus Development COrp., Lundeen & Associates, Mac Buyer's 
Guide/Redgaie Comm. Corp., Mac Orchard, Inc., MacMag, MacroMind, Inc., Macropac International, MacTutor, MacUscr Magazine/Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., MaeWEEK, Magic Software, Inc., Maimsuy, 
Manx Software Systems, Inc., Mass Microsystems, Meu Sol^are Corp., Micah Storage Systems, Micro Dynamics, Ltd., Micro Planning International, MicroGraphics Images Corp., Microsoft Corp., 
Microtech International, Inc., MicroTimes, Migent, Inc., Mindscape, Inc., Mirror Technologies, Moniterm Corp., Monogram Software, Inc., Monster Cable Co., National Instruments Corp., National 
Semi-Conductor, New Image Technology, Inc., Nolo Press, NuData, Odesta Corp.. Olduvai Software, Inc., Opcode Systems, Orange Micro, Inc., Ralantir Software, Para Sj'stems, Paragon Qmcepts, 
Inc., PC Telesystems, PC World Communications, Inc., PEAK S>’stems, Peripherals Computers & Supplies, Inc., Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., Personal Computer Peripherals Corp., Personal 
Training Systems, Pixelogic, Inc., Polomor Software, Inc., Postcraft International, Inc., Practical Computer Applications, Inc. (PCAI), Priam, Primera Softw'are, ProVTIE Dc\’elopmcnt Corp., Public 
Domain Exchange, Publishing, Ink, Quark, Inc., Racct Computers. Ltd., Radius, Inc., Ribbon Land, Satori Sof^-arc, Scott, Foresman and Co., Second Wave, Inc., Select Micro Systems, Sigma Designs, 
Silicon Beach Software, Inc., SoftView, Software Complement, Software Supply, Solutions, Inc., Spectra Blue, Spectrum Digital Systems, Specurum Holobyie, Springboard Software, Strawberry’ Tree 
Computers, SuperMac Technology, Survivor Software, Ltd., Sy-mmetry Corp., Systat, Inc., Tacklind Design, Inc., Target Software, Inc., TeleRobotics Imcmational, Inc., Telesls Educational Systems. 
Inc., The Bottom Line, 'Flic Macneal-Schwendlcr Corp., The Madson Line, THINK Technologies, Inc., TPS Electronics, True Basic, Versacad Corp., Virginia Systems Software, Vision Technologies, 
Inc., VC^ite Pine Software, Inc., Williams & Macias Microcomputer Products, WordPerfect Corp., Working Software, Inc. And there are more to come! MACWORLD Exposition/San Francisco is the 
origiiul Macintosh computer show. It's sponsored by MAC^'ORLD, the Macintosh'* Magazine, a member of the IDG Communications/lnc. family. 




There’s literally something for eveiy'- 
one — including special programs on 
computer-aided design, business graphics, 
communications, desktop publishing, edu- 
cation, programming with Mac and then 
some. 



Taxi, anyone? 

Avoid long lines at the door. Register now 
for this exciting three-day conference. And 
save J3. 

Simply fill out the coupon and send it 
with your check for $35 (or supply credit 
card information) to the address listed 
before December 15, 1987. Onsite confer- 
ence admission is $40. And no credit cards 
or checks will be accepted at Moscone 
Center. 

This low $35 fee allows you to visit all 
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Alvin Eisenman chose the Macintosh for Yale's prestigious graduate design school. 



Ivy League Mac 
Graphics 

Yale University, which 
boasts one of the top 
graphic design schools 
in the country, had a lot of 
choices when it came to select- 
ing computers for its graduate 
school of art. According to Al- 
\'in Eisenman, who heads up 
the school's graphic design de- 
partment, after four genera- 
tions of graphic arts technology 
the design school adopted the 
Mac for its low cost, its high- 
qualitv performance, and its 
WYSIWYG capability. 

The department s students 
design logos and typefaces 
u^mg^Fontographer. Artwork is 



created with Adobe Illustrator, 
layouts are designed with 
Quark XPress, and special ef- 
fects are created directly in 
PostScript. Comprehensive 
sketches are printed on a Laser- 
Writer, and camera-ready copy 
is sent to a Linotronic Imageset- 
ter for high-resolution output. 

Although anyone can load IF 
lust rator or XPress, Eisenman 
feels that these sophisticated 
tools are not self-explanatory; it 
takes artistically inclined indi- 
viduals to produce snappy 
looking documents using the 
newly available canned layout 
formats. 

Eisenman also maintains that 
design offices want to hire 
graduates who kiiow how to 



use this type of computer 
equipment, and that there is a 
great demand to teach profes- 
sional designers how to use it. 
That’s why Yale hosts a week- 
long summertime seminar at- 
tended by alumni who head up 
New York’s top graphic design 
firms. -Stuart Silver stone 



Managing Files 
the Fast Way 

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those files without hav- 
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Ybu can launch, delete, move, 
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Mao^'orld 93 






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INTRODUCING THE 
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To accomplish all this, author 
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PC Experience 
Pays Off 

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high-level error correction. 

According to Gene Della 
Torre, director of Tecmar s new 
ApjMe Products Division, the 
external QT-Mac40 gives Mac- 
intosh users all the benefits of 
Apple s cartridge tape unit in a 
portable system at an afford- 
able price. The $1395 device 
connects to the Mac Plus, SE, or 
II through a SCSI interface and 





Tectmir's QT-Mac40 tape back- 
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features both mirror-image and 
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Tecmar has a series of other 
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Desktop 

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Ecjuipped with his 
desktop CAD system, 
Tom Smith designs and 
builds ultra-energy-efficient 
houses. While the Mac helps 
Smith to draw faster and be 
more organized, it benefits him 
most by imi:)roving his design 
capabilities. 

With the Mac, Smith and his 
clients can examine, change, 
and refine plans until they get 
the hou.se loc^king and func- 
tioning exactly the way they 
want it. Smith’s clients stav in- 



volved with the Mac-generated 
plans longer than before, 
when he showed them paper 
blueprints. 

When the design is com- 
pleted. Smith uses ReactySetGo 
to put together a specification 
book. The document includes 




Tom Smith and bis son visit an energy-efficient house Smith 
designed on a Mac Pitts. Preliminary renderings were shown on 
the Mac so the client could participate in revisions. 



everything from blueprints to 
brick patterns, so that the cus- 
tomer can show off the soon- 
to-be-built home. In addition, 
Smith uses the Mac to display 
his portfolio of designs to po- 
tential clients. 

I low did this architect begin 
his Macintosh adventure? Smith 
originally bought the Mac to 
write a book describing his ar- 
chitectural philosophy. ITom 
preliminary drawings and blue- 
prints prepared as illustrations. 
Smith progressed to using the 
Mac for working blueprints, or- 
der forms, job controls, and 
client letters. With the help of 
Dick bishop, CAD specialist at 
Custom C(^mputer Specialists 
of Hauppauge, New York, Smith 
put together his CAD system. 

Smiths hardware now in- 
cludes a .Mac Plus, a 1 Ivper- 
Drive P'X/20, a Radius Full Page 
Display, a LaserWriter Plus, and 
a Hewlett-Packard DraftPro 
Plotter; he uses MacDraft, 
ReaclySetGo 3.0, FileMaker 
Plus, and Excel for software. 



You can see the results of 
Smiths Mac-oriented architec- 
ture in his book Tom Smith's 
Common Sense Architecture, 
which will be released next 
spring by Random Hou.se. 
-Brita Meng 




MIDI Standard 
Proposed 

A MIDI file format was 
formal 1\' proposed to 
the MIDI Manufac- 
turers’ Association (MM A) at 
the June trade show spon.sored 
by the National Association of 
Music Merchants ( NAMM ). 

Offering the standard was 
Dave Oppenheim of Opcode 
Systems, who has been devel- 
oping the new file-transfer 
format for the pa.st year in , 
a.ssociation with other MIDI 
developers. 

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Diwid Kusek*s new MIDI stan- 
dard may aid the growth of the 
electronic music industry. 



Right now, the MIDI (Musical 
Instrument Digital Interface) 
protocol enables computer- 
controlled synthesizers, sound 
processors, and computers to 
converse and cooperate. Each 
sequencer or editor application 
creates proprietary files. 

File transfers involve run- 
ning a sequence in real time, 
sending MIDI performance 
data as if played by a human, 
and then resaving. This time- 
consuming procedure could be 
replaced by the new MIDI hie 
format, which would make 
such exchanges as simple 
as opening hies within a 
dialog box. 

Passport president David 
Kusek says, ‘The analogy isn’t 
perfect, but MIDI hies repre- 
sent a Clue for musicians. The 
MIDI hie format will give soft- 
ware vendors the kind of kick 
the original MIDI (hardware] 
spec gave synth manufacturers.” 

A MIDI hie based on the 
new standard will be device- 
independent. Songs can be 
transferred from a Mac to an 
Apple II or from a IIGS to a 
Commodore 64 and back by 
modem, over MIDI cables, or 
on magnetic media. Further, 
this format is expected to en- 
courage modular software, 
which will mean that any edit- 
ing program can swap hies 
with any sequencer or printing 



module, regardless of the man- 
ufacturer. For example, Com- 
modore users might laser-print 
scores or edit tunes on a 
friend’s Mac. 

Proponents of the standard 
envision three hie types: single- 
track multichannel, like a cas- 
sette of a song; ;/-track parallel, 
where data is separated; and se- 
quential multichannel. This last 
formal divides a .sequence into 
verses and choruses, the way 
MIDI hardware often handles 
a song. 

Mac-MIDI software vendors 
seem to love the proposed for- 
mat. Already, Intelligent Music’s 
Jcmi Factory and M read and 
write the new MIDI hies. 
Southworth Music Systems’ 
MIDlPamt and One-Step will 
read them but won't write them 
“until the proposal is locked 
down by the MMA,” according 



Bill Southworth. The Japanese 
MIDI Standards Committee 
must also approve it. There’s a 
glimmer of Macintosh piracy in 
one coder's comment: “We just 
got tired of sitting around and 
waiting.” 

Apple’s participation has 
been minimal. In Cupertino, 
Steve Milne of the Music Engi- 
neering Group reports that the 



MIDI hie standard is a welcome 
step, and that informal meet- 
ings have been held to discuss 
a device-independent digital- 
sound-.sample hie standard. 

It seems that connectivity 
must be more than a marketing 
rubric in the Macintosh-MIDI 
world.-Cm/)? O'Donnell 



Magazine 

Quality 

We’re used to thinking 
of the Mac as a valu- 
able tool for producing 
newsletters and pamphlets. But 
more and more we're seeing 
powerful new programs that 
thrust the Macintosh, and espe- 
cially the Mac II, into some of 



the most demanding graphic 
applications. 

A case in point is a new pro- 
gram called The Lithographer 
from Knowledge Engineering 
that can produce magazine- 
quality halftone prints using a 
typesetter. The Lithographer 
raises the Mac’s graphic output 
from newspaper quality to 
magazine quality by taking full 
advantage of the Macintosh Il’s 
ability to dis]:>lay gray levels 




This scanned photograph of Greta Garbo shows the kind of image- 
processing capabilities that are notv available on the Macintosh. 



to SWS chief executive ofhcer 




on the screen. Combine that 
important function with auto- 
matic and mouse-controlled 
editing tools and you have a 
kind of electronic stat cam- 
era, according to Bill Bates, 
president of Knowledge 
Engineering. 

This computerized stat 
camera takes highly detailed 
scanned images and generates 
dense bit-mapped images for a 
typesetter. The Lithographer ^ 
output is not PostScript but a 
pixel-by-pixel representat ion 
of the picture. While a bit- 
mapped image may recjuire 
much more memory than a 
PostScript representation, it 
means that color separations 
can be rotated without creating 
the moire patterns typical 
of Po.stScript, claims Bates. 
(Adobe sa\^s moire patterns can 
be prevented through standard 
techniques.) 

It’s also po.ssible to create 
mezzotints, using textured 
screens, etchings, and 
posterizations. 

The LAthographer is now 
available for the Mac II in its 
black-and-white version. Can a 
color edition be far off? Call 
Knowledge Engineering in 
New York at 212/473-0095 for 
information on the availability 
of a color edition. 



Out of the 
Closet 

B Now your Macintosh 
SE 1 1D20 can safely 
stay on your desk at 
night instead of being relegated 
to a locked closet for protection 
of its internal data. 

Home users of an vSE might 
not be so concerned about 
theft or alteration of data, but 
publishers, government agen- 
cies, and big banks are espe- 
cially intere.sted in data secu- 
rity, explains Harry Sweere, 

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xMacw^orld 97 





INTRODUCING 101 MACROS FOR EXCEL 



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president of Ergotron. “When 
people had Pluses with exter- 
nal hard disks, they could eas- 
ily unplug the drive and lock it 
in a desk or closet. With the SE 
they’d have to unplug a number 
of cables and take the whole 
computer into a closet.” 

In response to requests from 
SE owners for a more conve- 
nient form of security Sweere 
invented the MacTilt SE Secu- 
rity System, which he aptly 
calls the Mu/.zle. 

To use the Muzzle, simply in- 
sert its steel tang into the SE’s 
internal disk drive opening at 
the front and slip the remain- 
der of the harness under the 
computer or MacTilt mecha- 
nism. Then fold the hinged 
backplate upward, covering the 
power plug, and lock it using a 
loop inserted in the security 
opening at the back of the Mac. 

When yoifre done, the hard 
disk is i^rotected from use by 
the absence of power, and data 
can't be extracted from the 
blocked disk drive. In addition, 
the MacTilt mechanism is now 




Er^otroH*s Muzzle secures an 
SB's internal hard disk. 



locked to the SE-an added 
beneht if the MacTilt is locked 
to the desk, says Sweere. 

The MacTilt SE Security Sys- 
tem costs $49.95 alone or 
$129.95 with the MacTilt SE. For 
further information, call Ergo- 
tron in Bloomington, Minneso- 
ta, at 800/328-9839. 



Filling the 
Interface Gaps 



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Ever say to yourself, 
“There must be an eas- 
ier way?” Well, so did 
Loft us Becker, Jr., who by now 
has probably written more 
small utilities for the Mac than 
anyone else. Now thousands of 
Macintosh users are enjoying 
Becker’s shortcuts. 



One of Becker’s first contri- 
butions was showing us how 
to reconfigure our keyboards 
using 7W/7-a technique he 
popularized on various tele- 
com mu n icat ion services. 

This System hack was the 
precursor to Becker's popular 
and free DA JbggleKevs 1.03, 
which allows the typing of 
commas and periods while in 
shift mode by eliminating the 
< and > symbols. Want those 
symbols back? Just select 
ToggleKeys once again. 

Becker went on to release 
two commercial programs: 
Tog^leKeys FKey 1.31, and Key- 
board 1.0, which can recon- 
figure the entire keyboard. 

Both products are being re- 
vised for the new System and 
will be shareware offerings in 
their new incarnation. 

Next, Becker wanted to use 
both fonts and DAs while work- 
ing in any application. So he 
wrote two shareware contribu- 
tions called Other... (version 
3.09, $10) and Foritsie (version 
3.06, $10), which can run DAs 
and fonts stored on a disk. 

In a .similar manner, Becker's 
DA Key 2.15 ( $10 ) allows DAs to 
be run from a file by invoking 
an F-key. Another DA, Laimch 
DA/FKey 1,4, a free F-key takes 
the matter further. It in.stantly 
creates a window for typing 
the name of any in.stalled DA 



or L'-key, which is launched as 
soon as a uniciue match is found 
-often after you'v^e typed only a 
few letters of the name. 

By now you might be won- 
dering how to use all these 
F-keys, given the Mac’s stan- 
dard limitation of eight new 
F-keys. Becker’s FKey Runner 



1.01, a commercial desk acces- 
sory, comes to the rescue by 
allowing numerous F-keys to 
be run from a menu. 

One of Becker’s more com- 
plex programs is Time Logger 
2.11 ($15), a shareware DA tliat 
tracks how the Mac is used. It 



Becker’s free software and 
shareware offerings can be 
found on many user-group bul- 
letin boards. Mis commercial 
|:>rograms can be obtained by 
calling Dreams of the Phoenix 
at 9^)A/i%-69'y2.-Unda Joan 
Kaplan 




Loftus ‘*Lofty** Becker, Jr., writes many small utilities for the Mac 
when he*s not teaching law at the University of Connecticut. 



works automatically or manu- 
ally and has many optional fea- 
tures, including the capacity to 
save records to any number 
of hies. 

Change Appl Font ( 1 .03 ), a 
desk accessory; sets the de- 
fault fonts and font sizes of 
documents. 

Other valuable and free con- 
tributions from Becker prepare 
messages for upload to online 
services. ClipperKey 1.5 and 1.6, 
F-keys that format text hies by 
inserting or stripping carriage 
returns, also monitor line 
length and number of char- 
acters and operate invisibly 
through keyboard commands. 

When not adding to the 
Mac’s capabilities, Becker 
teaches law at the University (T 
Connecticut, where he special- 
izes in criminal law, constitu- 
tional law, lav\- and psychiatry, 
and computer law. 



JClock’s Author 
Wins Timely 
Award 

“It’s .so universal, ev- 
eryx)ne uses it. Not 
only that, but it never 
bombs,” said Rebecca Waring, 
codirector of the Boston Com- 
puter Society (BCS) Mac 
user group. 

With those words. Waring ex- 
plained why Jim Sulzei'i, author 
di] Clock, a small I nit resource 
that puts a little digital clock in 
the .Mac’s menu bar, received a 
$500 grand prize award from 
the 3000-odd members of BCS 
.Mac, following the July ballot. 
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A rather revolutionary' Bering 20 mb Bernoulli 
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And, the first truly portable 5!//' system. One 
that lets you tote around 10,000 pages of data 
on a sleek cartridge about the size of a piece 
of bread. 

Tbanslated, that’s 25 times the storage 
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Yet unlike floppies, the 'Ibtem is no slouch for 
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used hard disks, you know what a pain that can be. 



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ICS Mac technical group be- 
Ibre moving to California two 
years ago, took the award at 
the August Mao\^orld Expo in 
Boston. 

BCS members also voted for 
four runners-up, who received 
$250 awards: Gil Beecher (au- 
thor of Disktop DA); Steve 
Brecher (author of Power- 
Stcitiou, DA Mob, WayStatiou, 
and Regress); Harry Cliesley 
( author of VCO and Pcicklt); 
and Itty Bitty Softw'are (actu- 
ally a company, creator of 
AiitoBlack). 

They join an elite group of 
previous winners that includes 
Bill Atkinson (creator of the 
Toolbox, MacPaint, and Hyper- 
Card), Scott Watson (Mr. Red 
Ryder), Charles Maurer (de- 
signer of the Boston II font for 
the ImageWriter), and John Ray- 
monds ( author of The Dun- 
geon of Doom). 

The BCS awards honor con- 
tributions to public domain and 
shareware programs for the 
Mac. The aw^ards recognize 




those who have written signili- 
cant programs and those who 
serve the computer commu- 
nity-for example, by assisting 
users over telecommunication 
ser\'ices like CompuServe and 
Applel.mk. 

Contest rules currently state 
that previous winners cannot 
be renominated, but BCS is 
starting to run out of nominees. 
Consequently, the BCS Mac 
group ma\' open up nomina- 
tions to previous winners, 
based on new services to the 
public domain/shareware com- 
munity. Another option, ac- 
cording to Rebecca Waring, is 
to av\ard only two prizes and 
increase the award money. 
-Brita Meng 




Color printing is now available for the Macintosh in a variety of 
fortnats ami technologies, starting at $1395 for an ink-jet printer 



Color Printers 
Now 






People inevitably say, 
“That color looks great 
on your Mac II screen, 
but what can you do with it?” 
While the ultimate .solution, a 
color laser printer, may be a 
year away, alternatives are avail- 
able now. 

For instance, there’s Hewlett- 
Packard's PaintJet, a $1395 ink- 
jet printer offering a resolution 
of 180 dots per inch (dpi), 
which is superior to the Image- 
Writer s 144 dpi but not equal to 
the LaserWriter s 300 dpi. The 
PaintJet is much quieter than 
most dot matrix printers and 
prints at a respectable 167 char- 
acters per second. 

HP has been careful to make 
this new printer available to 
Macintosh users; a driver is re- 
quired to make it Mac compati- 
ble. Some Macintosh programs, 
such as Cricket Draw and 
Cricket Graph, already include 
PaintJet drivers, but a generic 
driver will soon be available 
from Softstyle Solutions of 
Honolulu. (Connection is 
through an RS-232C serial port. 

Another alternative is Shin- 
ko’s $4500 thermal printer, 
which outputs on special pa- 
per. Although its 200-dpi reso- 
lution can't match the Laser- 
Writer, Shinko’s printer has 



found wide acceptance as a col- 
or-prooling machine for desk- 
top publishing, and for making 
overhead transparencies. 

The Shinko printer is distrib- 
uted by Computer Friends, a 
company ckxsely related to 
Reed College’s computer de\'el- 
opment lab in Portland, Ore- 
gon. The Reed lab is building 
links between the Shinko and 
the Macintosh by releasing a 
parallel port card for the Mac II 
($299) and a software package 
that includes a printer driver 
and po.ster-design capabilities 
($399). 

Another candidate is Apple's 
new ImageWriter LQ, which 
comes with a 27-pin print head 
that delivers up to 216-dpi reso- 
lution with a speed of 250 char- 
acters per second in draft 
mode. A four-color ribbon 
gives the LQ its color printing 
capabilities. At press time, the 
LQ was expected to cost be- 
tween $1300 and $1500. 

Full-color laser printers are 
being designed by Japanese 
firms such as Canon, Ricoh, 
Toshiba, and Sharp. But an 
American company, Colorocs 
Corporation, may be the first to 
market a full-color printer in 
the l.’nited States. Colorocs has 
reportedly demonstrated a 
four-color printer with 300-dpi 
resolution and a speed of 10 
pages per minute (ppm )-42 
ppm in black-and-white mode. 
It's expected to cost at least 
$10,000. 



For further information, call 
Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, 
California, at 415/857-1501; 
Computer FYiends in Portland, 
Oregon, at 503/626-2291; Color- 
ocs Corporation of Norcross, 
Georgia, at 404/448-9799; and 
Apple Computer in Cupertino, 
California, at 408/996-1010. 
-Scott Beamer 



Plain-Paper 

Typesetters 



B —jj Apple’s LaserWriter set 
new standards for writ- 
IfesMl ten communication 
and spawned a new industry: 
desktop publishing. But it took 
Linotype’s Linotronic electronic 
type.setters equipped with the 
PostvScript page-cle,scription lan- 
guage to give Macintosh u.sers 
access to typographic-quality 
printing. 

Over the past couple of 
years, more than a dozen com- 
petitors have emerged for Ap- 
ple's LaserWriter printer. Now 
the high-end laser printers, 
such as the Linotronic printers, 
are being challenged. 

For instance, the Varityper 
VT600 plain-jxiper type.setter 




The Varityper VT600 boasts 
600-dpi resolution. 



includes the PostScript RIP 
(raster imaging processor) and 
a built-in 20MB hard disk in its 
list price of $18,750. 

Varityper claims the \T600’s 
proce.ssing speed is two to four 
times faster than the LaserWri- 
ter’s, and its 600-dpi resolution 
is twice the LiserWriter's. 



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It used to be that Macintoshes and PCs were like 
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member of our 3+ network software family, it’s the 
first product to integrate both Apple and IBM net- 
working standards on one server. Not to mention the 
first network product other than Apple’s to adhere to 
the new Macintosh standards. 

For you, this means another significant first: 
genuine transparency. 

Now your Macintosh and PC files can actually 
reside in the same Macintosh folder and PC directory. 

And coexist with AppleShare servers on the same 
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3+ for Macintosh also works with the whole new generation of Macintosh multi-user 
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In terms of resolution, the 
Varityper is midway between 
the LaserWriter (300 dj:>i ) and 
the Linotronic 100 (1200 dpi). 
For many t\^pesetting uses, this 
will be adequate to produce 
camera-ready copy. 

The increased speeds come 
from advanced electronics, and 
the higher resolution is possi- 
ble because of an ultrahne 
loner. The Varityper can be 
connected into a Macintosh 
system through AppleTalk or 
an RS-232C port. 

Another challenger: Print- 
ware s laser printer, which is 
packaged as two discrete units, 
the 720 IQ Laser Imager and 
the 1200 HD Image Proce.ssor. 
Both are rec|uired for opera- 
tion. Printware will probably al- 
ready have introduced its own 
PostScript processor, Print- 
Script, by the time this is pub- 
lished. PrintScript will be 
available as a board tor Print- 
ware s Image Processor, adding 
$2000 to the price of the unit. 

Including a 20MB built-in 
hard disk, the total price of the 
Printware package will be 
about $17,000. The printer has 
1200- by 600-dpi resolution 
now, with expansion to a full 




The 720 IQ Laset* Imager takes 
resolution to new heights. 



1200 by 1200 slated for early 
1988. A SCSI port is just now 
being added, making connec- 
tion to a Mac easier. 

Tegra, a nianufacturer of 
electronic typesetting ma- 
chines, is expected to an- 
nounce a Macintosh interface 
soon. The Tegra machines will 
output up to 20 pages per min- 
ute and be priced beginning at 
$37,000. Two models will be 
available: a 1000-1 ines-per-inch 
plain-paper unit and a 2000- 



lines-per-inch film unit. The 
output can be transferred di- 
rectly to the printer s plate. 

Because of the relatively high 
price of these plain-paper type- 
setting machines, those not 
doing daily type.setting will 
probably use them through 
.service bureaus. 

F'or the desktop publisher, 
these machines have bridged 
the either/or choice between 
LaserWriter quality and typeset 
quality. You can choose the 
printer for your project on the 
basis of speed, cost, and quali- 
ty. For more information call 
Tegra in Billerica, Massa- 
chusetts, 617/663-1449; Var- 
ityper in East 1 lanover. New 
Jersey, 800/423-1829; and Print- 
ware in Mendota 1 leights, Min- 
nesota, 612/454-9522. 

-Scott Becimer 



HyperCard 

Latches 

VideoWorks 



n 



HyperCard is now 
grabbing program- 
ming hooks strategi- 
cally placed inside the latest 
version of VideoWorks. The re- 
sult: a seamless transition that 
makes the two programs act as 
one. It may start an important 
new trend. 

Picture the two programs 
working together. You sit down 
to a 19-inch color monitor 
mounted atop a Mac II. You be- 
gin a training program about 
the human circulatory system. 
You open up a HyperCard- 
based program that includes 
imaginative graphics to make 
the presentation fun. 

Using HyperCard, you select 
a tour of the human heart. As 
soon as you release the mouse, 
youVe on a sleigh ride through 
a major vein. Vou come shoot- 
ing toward a closed heart valve. 
It opens just in time, and your 
colorful tour of the human 




HyperCard can now control VideoWorks II’s coUirful animations, 
giving users the ability to ilirect their own Mac-based movies. 



heart has begun-if your own 
heart hasn’t quit in fright. 

This kind of training and ed- 
ucational software is po.ssible 
because MacroMind has de- 
signed its VideoWorks program 
to work hand in glove with 
HyperCard, the revolutionary 
program by Bill Atkinson of 
Macintosh Toolbox and Mac- 
Paint fame. HyperCard is now- 
packaged with every new Mac- 
intosh and is available at Apple 
dealers. 

''HyperCard is the fuHill- 
ment of a five-year-long dream 
about the capabilities of the 
Macintosh system," said Macro- 
Mind president Marc Canter. “In 
this case, it s what makes our 
VideoWorks interactive." 

Citing another example of in- 
teractive software. Canter de- 
scribed a disk-based software 
manual. As the user seeks help, 
various .selections prompt 
VideoWorks to simulate how 
the actual program works: the 
cursor moves, fonts change, 
and files open and close. 

Canter expects that thou- 
sands of educational and train- 
ing programs will be written 
using HyperCard, because it 
provides a scripting language 
that's relatively easy to imple- 
ment-something that's been 
long awaited b\' software 
developers. 



VideoWorks has its ow'n au- 
thoring language, which Canter 
hopes will also become a stan- 
dard. To help that process 
along, he's giving away the 
"projector" that makes Video- 
Works run during an applica- 
tion. (Tbu’ll still have to buy the 
program to create the movie. ) 

“I know a few developers 
don't like HyperCard because 
it can reiDlace some of their 
programs, especially the DAs. 
But for every ten developers 
that go out of busine.ss, hun- 
dreds will take their place 
using HyperCard" said Canter. 

For more information about 
VideoWorks, you can contact 
MacroMind in Chicago at 
312/871-0987. 



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AMatt Jenson believes MacBrain 
is a shortcut to artificial intel- 
ligence work on the Mac. 



That’s just one of the possi- 
bilities with a relatively new 
concept called ueiirocomput- 
ing, a branch of artificial intel- 
ligence that creates coni|:)u- 
tational systems based on the 
design of the human brain. 
These systems, called neural 
networks, can now' be created 
on the Macintosh using a new 
]:)rogram called MacBrain, 
from Neuronics of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts. 

Matt Jenson, president of 
Neuronics, points out that the 
brain learns and remembers by 
stimulating units that represent 
patterns of information, like a 
face or a symphony. ‘‘The excit- 
ing thing,” Jenson says, “is that 
spreadsheet cells and database 
fields can also create patterns 
in the mind’ of their neural 
networks. Using outcomes of 
transactions as additional units 
in the patterns, an expert sys- 
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database.” 

Even more is expected from 
neural-net technology, accord- 
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computing. lie predicts that 
W'e’ll see desktop neurocom- 
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that within five years neural 
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tions and compose grapliic lay- 
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Arrives 

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IBM PC, is now- available for the 
Macintosh. 

What makes this DA special, 
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Word Finder offers an aver- 
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meaning group. Choose a syn- 
onym, double-click on it, and 
the cho.sen synonym instantly 
replaces the highlighted word. 

If you w'ant to explore further, 
click once on a synom m and 



the program will provide you 
W'ith a new' set of words: syn- 
onyms for the synonym. 

Word Finder w'orks with 
most popular Mac {programs, 
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Now there’s a Macin- 
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pounds for a Mac Plus) and it 
can be used with either a bat- 
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W’alkMac’s designer is Chuck 
Colby, wJio is an old hand at 
putting the Macintosh in porta- 
ble enclosures, having begun 
W'ith the first Macintosh in 
April 1984. 

WalkiVlac's exteric^r consists 
of a heavy-duty plastic case 16 
inches wide, 11 inches deep, 
and 5 inches thick. It fits under 
a standard airline .seat-even 
w hen packed in its optional 
case that also contains a porta- 
ble printer. (A Plus or an SE can 
be disallow'ed as carry-on lug- 
gage because its minimum di- 
mension is 1.7 inches larger 
than the 8-inch maximum 
thickness .set by airlines.) 





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program: 



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I M8WW beats it. He esqpects a beta version in October (Heard that 
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I 



Select a word and launch the DA Word Finder, andyou*ll be pre- 



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place and the DA does it. t\o telling ivhat tvordsyou might Jind. 



An important part of the 
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Inside the unusual box are 
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WalkMac includes a two- 
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when rubbed against nearly 
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dow'n, ” Colby says. 

Open the tidy WalkMac pack- 




WalkiVIac: an 8- to 15-pound por- 
table with a sharp picture. 



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Just How 
Compatible 
Is Compatible? 

The mysteries of Mac II compatibility: 
what works, what doesn’t, and why 



by Bruce E Webster 



T, 



.he Mac II represents a major development in 
the Macintosh product line. It has open slots, multiple 
video options, a new processor ( 68020 ) and math 
coprocessor ( 68881 ), room for lots of memory, and 
significantly modihed ROM and operating system 
routines. Given all that, it’s not surprising that the 
question of software (and, for that matter, hardware) 
compatibility arises. 

On the other hand, the answer is surprisingly 
evasive. It’s clear when a program isn’t compatible: it 
acts funny, crashes, refuses to print, or in a myriad of 
other ways fails to perform as it would on a “regular” 
Macintosh. But if you launch a program and no 



108 NovcmhcT 1987 



I'lKVIOGKAPH UVD.WIU HISMOI* 



problems immediately arise, is it really compatible? Or 
Ivave you just not encountered the bugs yet? 

To explore some of the reasons for incompati- 
bility, I've run a number of programs on a Mac 11 and 
recorded my results. However, three warnings are 
in order. 

First, since bugs can be difficult to uncover, just 
because I failed to turn them up doesn't mean they 
aren’t there; it may just mean that I failed to do the 
right (or wrong) things to invoke them. 

Second, the Macintosh software market is too vast 
to cover effectiveh^. 1 requested several key software 
packages, and got only scattered responses, but even 
so, 1 ended up with a long list of products to look at, 
without much time to devote to each. And since I was 
unfamiliar with many of the products. 1 did not always 
know how best to wring them out. 

Third, I don't have the latest version of every- 
thing. I have old releases of some popular applications 
and no way to cjuickly get the latest. In many cases, I 
chose not to test the software at all rather than use an 
outdated version. 

And there’s also the issue of lead time. This article 
is being written in late July but won't appear for a few 
months. Many developers are out there furiously mod- 
ifying their programs to work on the Mac 11; revised 
versions ma\' well be available by the time you read 
this. Becau.se of that, version numbers (when avail- 
able) are given for the products tested. 

The Test System 

The Mac II I used to test all this softw'are included 
an 800K disk drive, a 40-megabyte hard disk, IMB of 
RAW, the Apple video card (640 by 480, 4 bit.Vpixel) 
with an Apple monochrome monitor, and the Super- 
Mac Spectrum board (1024 by 865, 8 bits/pixel ) w ith a 
194nch Sony monitor. Current system softw^are w^as 
u.sed: version 4.1 of the System and version 5.5 of the 
lander. The Sony w'as u.sed as the main .screen (with 
menu bar), with the Apple display to the left. 

Using two .screens, one much larger than normal, 
was crucial to the test. Some of the products that had 
problems would have run fine with a single regular- 
size display, but that doesn’t really make tliem Mac 11 
compatible, does it? 

Reasons for Incompatibility 

OK, OK, you’ve seen this list at least half a dozen 
times in the past few months, but once again w'e’re 
going to go over the reasons w'hy a fair number of 
.Macintosh programs have trouble running on the 
Mac II. 

One major rea.son is that developers ( including 
.some at Apple) violated the guidelines set down by 
Apple a few years ago. Brielly, these guidelines said: 



a.ssume nothing beyond what w'e tell you, and take 
nothing for granted. In other w'ords, don't count on the 
video RAM's being at a certain memory location, or 
tlie display’s having certain dimensions. Don’t pre- 
sume to ii.se reserved memory locations ju.st because 
they aren't currently u.sed by the Sy.stem. Don't think 
that the proce.ssor is always going to be ju.st a 68000. 
And .so on. 

Another major rea.son is that the Macintosh de- 
.signers didn't anticipate the migration to an open ar- 
chitecture, and so the\' made a lot of a.ssumptions and 
built iho.se a.ssumptions into the RO.M and operating 
system (OS) routines. 'Die RO.M has gone from 64K to 
256K, and tlie OS has suffered similar changes. Fur- 
thermore, the introduction of .Multi Finder (previously 
code-named juggler) represents an attempt to intro- 




Macintosh designers 
made a lot of assumptioias 
a77d built those assumptioias 
into the ROM ai7d operatmg 
syste?n i^outines. 



duce multitasking in an operating system that has al- 
ways a.ssumed single tasks, .\eedless to .say, developers 
have not always been pleased by-or been able to keep 
up wiih-the resulting shifts and lurches in sy.stem 
.software. 

Compounding all that has been .Apple’s reluc- 
tance to gel final v^ersions of hardware and .software to 
developers for final testing. With last-minute hardw'are 
changes, and system .software updates occurring w-ell 
after product release, developers can find themselves 
stung. One firm I talked to told of Apple's refusal to 
swap its prototype system for a final version, citing the 
heavy demand and claiming that the two were identi- 
cal. As it turned out, they w^eren't. After releasing a 
product that ran fine on the prototype but poorly on 
the final versions, the company ended up having to 
proN'ide updates for large numbers of customers. 

Back to the developers' sins. The 68020 has an in- 
.siruciion cache, in which it keeps the la.st 64 instruc- 
tions it has e.xecuted along with each in.si ruction s 
addre.ss. When it fetches an instruction from a given 
addre.ss, the 68020 first checks to .see if that addre.ss is 
in the cache. If it i.s, the 68020 loads the in.struction 
from the cache in.stead of fetching it from memory. 

I nforiunately, some I'lrogrammers use a lech- 
nicjiie called self-iuodifying code, which allow\s the 
program to rewrite its owmi instructions and then exe- 
cute them again. This technique is e.specially popular 
for cop\* protection code, to keep would-be crackers 



110 November 1987 




Headiu^for a Crash 

l^rc\ifmnis (hcti niocUfy themselres in wumory wili tiof work on 
68020 based Macs. (1) The 68020 CPU searches its cache for 
the ne.xt instructions. (2) If not font id, the CPU fetches the hi- 
st met iott from PA.M. (3) A copy of the instructions is placed in 
the cache. (4) The program modifies the instruction in RAM. 
(5) The CPI ^fetches the ttn modified copy from the cache, 
result inti in a protiram error 



from (racing the instructions as they execute. How- 
ever, if tlie 68020 goes to execute a modified instruc- 
tion, and the unmodified version is .still in the cache, 
then gue.ss which one the 68020 u.se.s? Right: the un- 
modified one (.see "Heading for a Crash”). 

There are more pitfalls, hut these should he 
enough to give you an idea of the problems inherent 
with Mac 11 compatibility. ITankly, I’m amazed that so 
much software runs as well as it does. Let’s look at 
some of the packages I’ve tested and see how they did. 

Word Processing 

Microsoft Wbrr/3.0. Word runs just fine on the 
Mac 11. or better put, the bugs that show up aren’t any 
news. I've heard .some reports of Word having prob- 
lems with large-.screen displays, but 1 haven’t encoun- 
tered any. ( I used Word to write this article. ) As this 
i.ssLie went to pre.ss, Micro.soft had just relea.sed ver- 
sion 3.01, which reportedly has corrected the bugs in 
version 3.0. 

MeteWrife 4.6. Apple violated its own guidelines 
with the .software it produced; it’s ironic that neither 
MaeWrite nov MacPaint would work on the Mac 11 




when it was first relea.sed. I lowever, the ju.st-relea.sed 
MaeWrite version 4.6 does work, with only one annoy- 
ance: it always asks if you want to .sav e your changes, 
even if none were made. 

ReadySetGo 3.0. No problems encountered. The 
large .screen helps a lot in laying out pages. 

Expressionist 1.0. It launches and runs fine. How- 
ever. it didn't want to let me save the scratchpad eejua- 
tion 1 had created, and it finally crashed during m\' at- 
tempts to do .so. 

Dotfif Clapp's Word Tools 1.01. One problem, and 
1 don’t know if it is specific to the Mac 11, or if it’s ju.si a 
run-of-the-mill bug. I modified the .su.spect punctua- 
tion list; after that, the program couldn’t find any 
punctuation problems and finally encountered a 
system error. 



Painting and Drawing 

Cricket Draw 1.01. It .seems to work fine; the few 
occa.sional glitches are more likely cau.sed by the soft- 
ware it.self rather than by Mac II incompatibility. It also 
runs a heck of a lot faster on a Mac II than it does on 
a Mac Plus or an SE. which means that it’s almost 
tolerable. 

Cricket Graph 1.1. This al.so .seems to work fine; 
no glitches encountered at all. 

T'tfllPaint 1.1. It wouldn’t allow me to open a win- 
dow larger than standard Mac size; however, 1 was able 
to drag windows everywhere, including on the auxil- 
iary .screen. I couldn’t drag tools over there, though. 
Most notably, the program crashed when I attempted 
to open a document outside the folder in which Fttll- 
Paint resides. 



Macworld 111 














SitperPcihU 1.0. Unusable. It litters the screen 
with a set of little boxes across the top; anything you 
attempt to draw appears in those boxes, scaled down. 

MacPaint 1.4. Well, yes, it is dated. 1 scrounged 
around, looking for a copy of version 1.5, but no luck. 
Version 1.4 does not work well on the Mac II. It per- 
forms the same little-box trick Super Paint does. 

MacDraft 1. 2a. No problems encountered. It rec- 
ognizes and uses the large display. 

MacDrair 1.9.5. Likewise, no problems were 
encountered. 

Phoenix MD 1.0. Dead on launch. It crashed the 
system so thoroughly that even the power switch 
didn’t work: I had to use the switch on my power strip 
to turn off the Mac. 

Applications 

Microsoft Excel 1.04. This spreadsheet works 
\^ry well on the Mac II, adjusting to the large screen 
and automatically using the 68881 math coprocessor. 
No problems here. 

MacProject 1.2. This works fine on the Mac II and 
even makes u.se of color: the project chart is done in 
blue, with the critical path (including tasks and mile- 
stones) in red. 

4tb Dimension 1.0.1. As you might guess, this 
database program (originally code-named “Silver Sur- 
fer") al.so works well on the Mac II. 

More 1.1. 1 had heard rumors of problems with 
More on the Mac II, hut none of my tests showed any 
bugs at all. More gets a clean bill of health. 

Guide 1.0. This hypertext processor for the Mac 
appears to work without any problems on the Mac II. 

Communications 

MacTerminal 2.2. This runs on the Mac II and is 
u.sable, but it has one limitation: although you can 
open a terminal window larger than the regular Mac 
size using the §§-Option-drag technique, MacTerminal 
will only u.se a Mac-size portion of the window. 

MicroPho)ie 1.0. A new version of MicroPhone is 
already out; 1 suspect it runs fine on the Mac II. Version 
1.0, however, does not. It starts out OK, but crashes 
after awhile. 

AppleLink 4.0. Runs without any problems at all. 

Languages 

(A note on languages. None of the compilers used 
had the necessary libraries to call the new Mac II ROM/ 
OS routines, such as the Color .Manager. As a result, I 
was unable to write any nifty programs that |Dut out 
lots of colors or used hierarchical menus. Can you 
imagine what it’s like having a Mac II with a 19-inch 
color monitor and no real way to take advantage of it?) 



MacDxm 77 2.0F. This version produces code for 
the 68020 and 68881 processors. The edit window is 
limited to the regular Mac size and location, as is the 
output from the demo programs. 

MacEOPTPAA^OJO 2.2c. This FORTIl\S com- 
piler also produces 68020/68881 code. I could compile 
and link the demo programs; however, when I ran 
them, the screen would clear, the program name 
would appear in the menu bar, and then I’d be re- 
turned to the Finder. I think the library needs some 
revamping. 

Macintosh Pascal 1.0. Dies on launch, displaying 
a system error box. 

Li^htspeed Pascal 1.0. This fouls up and crashes 
very quickly. Think Technologies says it’s close to re- 
leasing a version that has, in addition to Mac II compat- 
ibility, libraries for all the new ROM/OS routines. 

Turbo Pascal 1.00a. This version has one glitch: 
after you’ve used it to compile and run a program, the 
System bombs when you return to lltrbo Pascal once 
the program s done. Borland sent me a prerelea.se copy 
of version l.OOe, which works just line. 



TML Pascal 2.0. No problems here at all; I was 
able to edit, compile, link, and run programs without 
encountering any .strange behavior. 

Mac C 5.01 (68020/68881 version). Since a lot of 
folks are using this compiler to do Mac II benchmarks, 
you can guess that it does indeed work on the Mac II. 
No problems encountered. 

LigbtspeedC 2.01. Although no immediate prob- 
lems were aj')|')arent, I found increasing flakine.ss as 
time went on. Think Technologies has a patched ver- 
sion up on CompuServe, and a fully functional relea.se 
should be out by the time you read this. 

A PL Pins 1.0. Not even close. I got a system error 
box when 1 started it up, and didn't even get that far 
when I double-clicked on an APL Pins .source code file. 

MacEORTH Plus 1.0. This started up without 
problem, but it displayed erratic behavior with .some 
functions (such as backspacing). Although 1 had some 
other problems. I’m not sure if they were Mac II re- 
lated or just a result of my unfamiliarity with the 
program. 

Object Lo^o 1.0. Like Plus, this one died on 
launch. 



Can you imagine what ifs 
like having a Mac II with 
a 19-inch color monitor 
and no real way to take 
advantage of it? 



112 Novemlx;r 1987 



put Balance of Power in the drive and double-clicked 
on it, it died right after it brought up the title screen. 

Enchanted Scepters 1.0. This is one game that 
works well on the Mac II. The large screen isn’t much 
use, but the sound and graphics come through fine. 

The only problem occurs when you quit: instead of re- 
booting the System, the game crashes it, so not even 
the power switch will w\)rk. 

§ Most Mac games won't work 
on the Mac II because game 
' programmers use every 
shortcut they can think of 



Desk Accessories 

Acta 1.2. This outliner installed as a desk acces- 
.sory does just fine on the Mac II. 

Talking Moose 1.21. Sigh. My favorite desk acces- 
sory just won’t run on the Mac II. Apparently, the main 
problem is that Macintalk doesn’t work on the Mac II. 
With luck, someone may have fixed it by the time you 
read this. 

Stars II. This DA w^rks fine on the Mac II. It 
blanks both screens, picks a balanced origin (in this 
case, within the left half of the large screen), and 
shoots stars at you. Stars that trail off the left edge of 
the large screen appear on the right edge of the small 
one. Well done. 

BlankScreen, FadeToB/ank, Idle, Moireldle, 
Polyidle, ZoomIdle (all 1.1), Stars 1.3. All the.se 
screen-blanking DAs have the same problem: they 
wt)i*k line on a single screen but not on two. They 
blank and run on the main one, but leave the other 
.screen unblanked and untouched. 

Smart Alarms 2.5. This nifty alarm DA from 
Imagine Software, which I haven’t used extensively, so 
far appears to work perfectly. 

Appointment Diary 2.9. Another DA from Imag- 
ine Software, which also appears to work without 
problem.s. 

Sleep. Another screen saver similar to Idle, which 
gives you a blacked-out screen and a bouncing Macin- 
tosh icon; it’s bundled with the previous two DAs. Un- 
fortunately, like the other screen-blanking DAs listed 
above, it only affects the large (main) screen and 
doesn't blank the .small one. 

due 1.05. A well-known DA from Solutions Inter- 
national. I had no problems wath it at all. 

SmartScrap 1.02. Also from Solutions Interna- 
tional, this is a replacement for the Scrapbook. Again, 
no problem.s with it so far. 

The Clipper 1.01. This comes with SmartScrap 
and is u.sed for high-precision cutting and pa.sting. No 
problem.s .so far. 

SideKick 2.0. I've briefly tried out most of the DAs 
in this package; no immediate problem.s except the 
System’s limit on DAs. 



World Builder 1.0. This w'orks very well on the 
Mac 11. You’ll probably w^ant to use it to build your own 
games, since so many others don’t work at all. The 
sound libraries also >^wk w'ell. 

Strategic Conquest 1.0. There is a later version of 
this game already out, but the original actually works 
on the Mac II. When 1 started it, I got the funny .small 
boxes across the top of the screen (as with Super- 
Paint), with some sort of squashed image loaded into 
them. After that point, though, the game ran just fine, 
and I managed to waste a good deal of time playing it. 

Chessmaster 2000 1.0. Dies a quick death. 

Hardware Compatibilities 

I had hoped to report on several SCSI hard disks, 
but only one manufacturer-General Computer- 
actually .sent one. The HyperDrive FX/20 plugged 
right into the back of the Mac II and .started up without 
incident. I had to run the Apple SCSI setup program to 
get the Sy.stem to recognize the drive, but after that, 
things went without a hitch. I’ve transferred lots of files 
back and forth, run programs off both drives (the 
FX/20 and the internal Mac II hard disk), and have had 
no problems. 



Games 

Most games written for the Macintosh won’t work 
on the .Mac II. This is because game programmers tend 
to use every shortcut and wily trick they can think of. I 
grew tired of constantly rebooting my Mac II, so you 
may find this a le.ss-than-comprehensive li.st. My 
apologies. 

Balance of Power 1.03. 1 had no problems with 
this as long as I booted up with its disk. However, 
when I .started up the Mac II with another disk, then 



Looking Ahead 

By choosing your softw^are wisely, you can imme- 
diately become productive on a Macintosh II, even if 
your video configuration is a little strange. What’s 
more, a Mac II with a large .screen is parsecs ahead of 
the little beige toaster we ail know' and love. Market 
pre.ssures will eventually encourage developers to 
clean up incompatible products, w hich will expand 
your options. Even more exciting w ill be the products 
designed specifically for the Mac II, to take advantage 
of its features and power. With luck, we the consumers 
will be the ultimate winners. □ 



Macworld 113 




N \ 



V 



Benchmark: 

Mechanical CAD 

Three Mac programs 
go function to 
function against 
AutoCAD 



by David L. Peltz 




JLn the past, when 
computer-aided design systems cost mil- 
lions of dollars each, selecting a CAD pro- 
gram was easy. All you did was form a CAD 
selection committee to draw up a specilica- 
lion of system requirements, issue a re- 
quest for proposals from CAD vendors, 
and send the selection committee on a nice 
long trip to visit all the vendors and run a 
benchmark. 

Today micro systems are nearly as 
complex as their mainframe-based fore- 
bears, but in most cases the full weight of 
selecting a C.AD package falls on the shoul- 
ders of you, the user. Finding a CAD pack- 
age that effectively performs the kind of 
drafting and design work you do is a difh- 
culi and time-consuming undertaking. To 
help you, Macworld asked me to bench- 
mark some of the leading Macintosh 2-D 
mechanical CAD programs. 

Procedures 

Earlier this year a publication called the 
Computer-Aided Design Report put to- 
gether a C.AD benchmark to le.si a group of 
mostly MS-DOS CAD programs ( CAD Re- 
port, May and June, 1987). The test consists 
of 21 tasks, each of which is designed to 
highlight some aspect of CAD systems 
functionality. With the CAD Report's per- 



mission, Macworld borrowed their 
benchmark procedures. 

The good thing about CAD Report's 
approach is that the test s creators defined 
a set of tasks that bring out the features a 
typical mechanical designer actually u.ses, 
yet they realized that different users may- 
put a different value on each of these core 
features. The Macworld testers assigned 
each task an importance factor between 1 
and 10. This number reflected the testers 
assessment of the importance of that as- 
pect of a CAD system to their actual work. 
The importance factors are listed in 
Table 1. 

Next the testers were asked to conduct 
the 21 tasks exactly as described, observ- 
ing and recording the time and/or the 
number of operations it took to perform 
each task. 

The te.sters final step was to give their 
systems a performance rating of 0 through 
10 for each task (.see Table I ). For con.sis- 
tency among the testers, we prov ided de- 
tailed guidelines .spelling out the degree of 
ea.se or difficulty denoted by each rating. 

To get final .scores, 1 averaged the 
importance factors of all four testers to 
achieve an average importance factor for 
each task. Those figures were then multi- 



.Macworlcl 115 



VersaCAD Comes to the Mac 



The July announcement by 
Versacad Corporation that it 
was entering the Macintosh 
CAD softw'are market with 
VcrsaCA D/A lach i/osh Eclitio) / 
hrouj»ln an abrupt end to Mac- 
intosh skeptics constant re- 
frain: “If the Macintosh is such 
a good machine for CAD, why 
are there no major CAD soft- 
ware suppliers supporting it?’' 
VcrsaCA D/A lac in tosh Edi- 
tion, however, is not just a 
ported-over version of the com- 
pany's MS-DOS product. It’s an 
extensive and completely new 
professional CAD package that 
fully adheres to Macintosh 
user-interface conventions and 
provides full support of the 
Clipboard. Translatkjn hies that 



interface with desktop publish- 
ing, paint packages, hnite- 
element analysis, CAM, and 
other applications are also 
supported. 

According to Visual Informa- 
tion, plans are in the works for 
eventually linking that com- 
pany’s Dimcnsunts 3-D solid 
modeling software to the new 
VcrsaCAD/ Macintosh Edit io)i, 
as well. 

On the basis of an early pre- 
view, VcrsaCA D/Alacintosh 
Edition looks like it has the po- 
tential to become the Mac CAD 
program. The package will sell 
for $1995. Deliveries of hnal 
versions to users are scheduled 
to begin in December. 

As this screen shows, 
V'ensaC A D/Macinu )sh 
lid ii ion Hies np to its 
name: the program 
has been completely 
reirritten for the Mac. 




plied by the task performance ratings and 
totaled to produce overall scores. 

The Packages 

The three Macintosh programs includ- 
ed in the test were those that were com- 
mercially available at the time of the test 
(.see “Ver.saCAD Comes to the Mac”) and 
had the power and features necessary for 
professional mechanical design applica- 
tions: ;U(7AAS7r///o// from Micro CAD/CAM, 
Minicad from Diehl Graphsoft, and 
Bridgeport Machines’ /:Z-/);r//'/. MacDraw 
and AlacDrqfl were excluded because they 
simply don’t have the capabilities the other 
CAD programs do, and wouldn’t have been 
able to compete. 

Our fourth test subject, A/z/oCAD 
from AutoDesk, is the favorite of the MS- 
DOS world and was included for compari- 
son purpo.ses. AutoDesk claims to have de- 
livered over 100,000 copies o{ AutoCAD, 
which makes it the most popular micro- 
computer-based CAD system in use today. 

The Testers 

Ideally, the judging panel for a bench- 
mark such as this would be made up of 
people who were experts on every system 
being tested. In the real world, however, 
one is faced with a choice: either have the 
.same group of people test all the programs, 
which would make the scoring process 
more consistent, or have only the people 
who really know a program ptit that piece 
of .software through its paces. 

The original authors of this bench- 
mark followed the first option, which 
leaves them open to the criticism that per- 
haps certain programs would have fared 
better if their operators had had more ex- 
perience on those systems. Since CAD sys- 
tems are so complex and take so long to 
learn, for ihc A/acn^orld test 1 decided to 
follow the .second option and have the tests 
performed only by a panel of professionals 
who work day to day with the product they 
tested. The disadvantage of this approach is 
that it reduces the relative value of the 
.scores, since each tester looks at only one 
system. The weighting system di.scussed 
earlier mitigates this problem, as it reflects 
a con.sensus view regarding the impor- 
tance of the functions tested. 

The testers were: Victor Anastasia, 
who usesAtttoCAD at Tru.sco Tank in San 
Luis Obispo, California; Dennis Stewart, 
who works with EZ-Draft at Boeing in 
Seattle; Joe Lewis of the I l()lh'\voodhbkyo 
Film Con.sortium in Chatsworth, California, 



who uses MGAlStatioti; and Richard 
Wuthrich, who uses AUtticadiM Chicago 
PPL in Flk Grove Village, Illinois. 

The Tests 

Task 1: Tangency 

This first task te.sts the CAD software’s 
ability to work with tangents to circles or 
arcs. The task recjuires the operator to 
draw three unecjual circles and then draw a 
new circle tangent to the t)riginal three. 

Results: All four sy.stems were able 
to perform the task, but with widely vary- 
ing degrees of difficulty. 1/hc AutoCAD 
tester gave this task the highest .score, 
but the lowest importance factor. The 



MGMStation tester had the easiest 
time doing it. 

Ta.sk 2: Accuracy 

One factor in determining mechanical 
design's ultimate accuracy is how well the 
CAD software calculates the intersection of 
curved entities .such as arcs or circles. Ta.sk 
2 requires the operator to draw a point at 
.specified coordinates and then to draw two 
circles tangent to the point. The operator 
next era.ses the point and asks the system 
to create a new point at the intersection 
of the two circles. The new point.s’ coor- 
dinates should match tho.se of the origi- 
nal point. 



116 November 1987 





AutoCAD tester Victor Anastasia uses the Mac to 
design outdoor storage tanks. Working with a 
computer is particularly efficient for him be- 
cause so much of his work is repetitive. 

ResiiUs: AutoCAD was the only one 
of the four systems to show any deviation 
between the original coordinates and the 
hnal ones, yet the AutoCAD tester gave his 
system the highest score. In other words, it 
was easy for this tester to get the least ac- 
curate answ'er. No tester gave this task an 
importance factor lower than 8. 

Task 3: Radial Grids 

All 2-D CAD systems use an x-y Carte- 
sian coordinate system to describe loca- 
tions. Sophisticated CAD software enables 
users to deline points using other coordi- 
nate systems as well, including radial grids. 
For Task 3, the tester draws points, circles, 
and symbols by specifying their bearing 
angle and distance from an origin in a po- 
lar coordinate s\\stem. 

Results: The Miuicad tester had the 
greatest trouble with this task and gave his 
program the lowest rating. MGMStation 
and AutoCAD w'ere tied at the top-both 
for importance and ease of performance. 

Task 4: Rotate Gear Teeth 

For this task, the tester draws a simple 
gear tooth and then copies it at equally 
spaced intervals around a circle, rotating 
the tooth with each copy. The testers are 
asked to su]:)ply the time it look them to 
complete this task and to rate the soft- 
ware s performance. 

Results: Minicad performed this test 
in only 150 seconds. AutoCAD took 170 
seconds, HZ-Draft took 300 seconds, and 
MGMStcttiott took 600 seconds. Although 
Minicad performed this test faster than the 
other programs, the Minicad tester was 



not personally satisfied with his systems 
performance; he gave his program the 
lowest rating. 

Task 5: Copy, Rotate, Mirror 

Mechanical design often involves the 
creation and duplication of complex ob- 
jects that are symmetrical about an axis. If 
you need only draw half an object and then 
can produce the rest by copying, rotating, 
or mirroring that half, you can greatly re- 
duce your drawing time. This task exam- 
ines a program s ability to perform those 
functions. 

Results: Minicad AutoCAD were 
able to do this task with the fewest number 
of operator steps. EZ-Draft took the most 
steps. All testers gave their systems a 10 in 
ease of performance and all gave it a very 
high importance factor. 

Task 6: Circumscribed and 

Inscribed Polygons 

Single-step routines for drawing 
scjuares, circles, and rectangles are com- 
mon. Le.ss common are easy-to-use rou- 
tines for creating unusual polygons. In this 
test, a circle is used as the basis for con- 
structing seven-sided polygons. The op- 
erator is asked to draw a circle and then 
circumscribe it and inscribe it with seven- 
sided polygons. 

Results: EZ-Draft took only two steps 
to perform this ta.sk. AutoCAD took three, 
MGMStation took five, and Minicad took 
.seven. The operators assigned this task 
widely varying importance factors: the 



MGMStation te.ster thought it was a 9; the 
EZ-Draft man gave it an an 8; the Minicad 
operator gave it a 5; and ihe AutoCAD 
tester, only a 4. 

Task 7: Constructing Fillets and 

Chamfers 

This test comprises three parts. First, 
the operator draws two circles of unequal 
size and then connects them with the eight 
po.ssible fillets (see ligure). This demon- 
strates the flexibility and the geometric 
con.struction power of the CAD software. 

Results: Neither A/z/oCAD novfdini- 
cad was able to complete this drawing. 
Their testers were able to draw only two of 
the eight hllets. EZ-Draft was able to do all 
eight fillets in 60 seconds, while MGMSta- 
tion took 150 seconds. 

In the second part, the tester draws 
two arcs, connects them with a circular fil- 
let of a .specified radius, and trims the arcs 
at the point w'here they meet the fillet. 

Results: Mitticad was unable to per- 
form this test. EZ-Draft did it in 2.5 sec- 
onds, whereas A/z/oCAD took 26 .seconds 
and;V/6';V/5/^///o;/ took 150 .seconds. 

For the third part, the operator draws 
two perpendicular lines and then cham- 
fers them (.see figure). The test asks the 
operator to note whether the program 
prompts for the length of the chamfer or 
for its distance from the corner (which is 
preferable). 

Results: Here again the times varied 
considerably. EZ-Draft completed the test 
in 2.5 seconds, MGMStation took 20 .sec- 

Figttrel 

What's all the fuss over 
.AutoCA I )? A,s' VO// can 
see, the fhial scores 
were quite close— 
proi'i}ig the Mac can 
hack it as a CAD ma- 
chit w. O) w reasoti 
these results don't 
show more variation 
is that we tested only 
the most suitable pro- 
grajfis and excluded 
programs like Mac- 
Draft, which wek)iow 
to be less acceptable 
for rigorous mechani- 
cal design work. 




.Mac-world 117 




Task 12: 
Dimensioning 
The object is drain i 
and dimensioned as 
shown. 




STEEL STOCK 



Task 13: Feature 
Control Symbols 

The two feature con- 
trol symbols are to be 
produced by the CAD 
system. 




Task 13: Feature Control Symbols 

Some CAD systems enable you to pro- 
duce common feature control symbols au- 
tomatically, while others recjuire that sym- 
bols be manually constructed as small, 
annotated drawings. 

For this task, the testers produced two 
feature control symbols according to ANSI 
Standard Y14.5 (see figure). They then 
checked to see how easy it is to change the 
symbols. If a system generated the sym- 
bols automatically, the tester was asked to 
check whether the symbols conform to 
ANSI or ISO .standards. 

Results: Only lacked facili- 
ties for generating the.se blocks. The other 
systems were fully equipped for this func- 
tion; MGMStcition and AtttoCAD were tied 



with 10 for ease of use, EZ-Draft rated a 9, 
and Miniccid^oi an 8. 

Task 14: Speed 

Users of slow CAD software can spend 
more time waiting for their system to re- 
draw, pan, and zoom than they spend 
drawing. Both .software and hardware af- 
fect the time it takes to do these opera- 
tions, and it s difficult to separate the 
effects of each. 

The following equipment was used for 
the Mcicii'orkl benchmarks: with Miuiccicl, 
a I-megabvte Mac SE with a 20MB internal 
hard disk;'Z:Z-D;r///, a 2MB Mac 512KE with 
a 20MB hard disk;\l/c;.l/5'/(:///o;/, a Mac 
512K w ith a ITvperDrive; an 

892K IBM PC AT w'ith a 30MB hard disk. No 
one indicated the use of accelerators. 



This test comprises five timed ta.sks; 
each task is a.ssigned a different w^eighting. 
First the testers constructed a drawing of 
1300 entities by creating a simple figure 
(a square with rounded corners contain- 
ing a point and text) and copying it into a 
lO-by-10 array. The time it took to make the 
copies w'as noted (weight for this test: 1). 
Next the tester filed the lO-by-10 figure 
iwvixy on di.sk and recalled it, noting the 
lime it look to load the drawing (w'eight: 

2). The third part te.sted the time it took to 
zoom from viewing the full array dow n to 
only one part (weight: 6). For the fourth, 
the operator noted how long it took to 
zoom back out to the full array (w^eight: 6). 
The final test asked the operator to redraw 
the figure using a redraw function 
(weight: 5). 

Results: To .score this test, I multiplied 
the times by the weights and totaled their 
products (.see Table 2). The kwer the num- 
ber, the fa.sier the sy.stem. The te.siers al.so 
a.ssigned a rating based on ea.se of perfor- 
mance; MGMStcition got an 8, the rest 
recei\*ed 10. 

Task 15: Memory 

With their 1MB or more of RAM, Mac- 
intoshes should be le.ss likely to run out of 
memory than MS-DOS machines, w'hich 
can't directly address more than 640K. To 
.see w'heiher memory might run out during 
a drawing se.ssion for a reasonably complex 
object (about S200 entities), the te.siers 
were asked to copy the lO-by-10 array from 
Task 14 four times and to note if the sy.stem 
failed or ran out of memory. 

Results. Onl\* EZ-Draft ran out of 
memorx; even thoiigh its tester had the 
mcxsi RAM (2MB). 

Task 16: Directory Management 

MS-DOS u.sers aren't ble.ssed with the 
Mac's Under, so MS-DOS CAD softw are 
should provide some of the Finder’s func- 
tions. In a CAD environment, for example, 
designers need to be able to get at previ- 
ously stored drawings in many.w-ays. 

This task asked the testers to check 
wliether their sy.stem enables them to .son 
a drawing li.si by name, date, or other vari- 
ables. The te.siers also noted whether their 
system allow'ed them to copy, rename, or 
delete draw ings w ithout having to quit the 
CAD program. On a Mac, the results were 
very predictable. 

Results: All three .Mac testers were 
able to disjMay draw ing lists .sorted by 
name, date, size, kind, and icon. AutoCAD 
can .sort by name, date, draw ing extension, 



120 November 1987 




and subdirectory. All four testers were able 
to copy and rename drawings while still 
in CAD, but only AutoCAD could delete 
draw ings without having to e.xit to the 
operating system. 

Task 17: Programmable Tablet 

The original authors of this bench- 
mark assumed that their IBM audience 
would be using a tablet, and simply asked 
whether the system enabled the users to 
program their tablets. For this test, the 
operators were also asked whether their 
systems require a tablet and if a tablet can 
he used, 'fhe testers were also asked to 
consider the ea.se with wiiich their sys- 
tem let them program tablets to create or 
group functions. 

Rcsiilts: None of the systems requires 
a tablet, but all cxct^pi Mi?iiccul can use 
them, iiie AutoCAD tester w'as the only 
one w'ho reported programmability as a 
built-in function. Although this capability 
won AutoCAD a 10. \\v^ AutoCAD tester 
thought this feature worth only a 5 impor- 
tance factor. The EZ-Draft tester, on the 
other hand, believes tablets have an im- 
portance of 8, even though his sy.stem 
earned a 0. 

Task 18: Parametric Programming 

Parametric programming capabilities 
enable a user to tell the .software to per- 
form complex functions automatically. 
Some people would call these macros. 

Unfortunately none of the Mac CAI3 
systems offers programming capabilities. 
Even though w'e knew this going in, we 
asked the testers to note whether their pro- 
gram includes a language or means for 




Tester Joe Lewis has been usiti^ .MGMSiaiion/b;* 
three years to desi^ti motion picture ecjuipment 
and animation models-like this pterodactyl. 



Stringing together series of commonly 
u.sed operations and to judge w'hether the 
language has most of the features of a com- 
puter programming language. (Mac CAD 
software developers should take note of 
their low scores in these areas. ) 

Results: AutoCAD, w ith its AutoLISP 
language, rated highest. The MGMStatioti 
tester apparently found a way to work 
around that programs lack of a built-in lan- 
guage, since he gave the program an 8. EZ- 
Draft received a 3; Minicad received a 1. 
Once again, the testers w'ho lacked features 
.seemed to be trying to send a message to 
developers, while the testers with the fea- 
tures take them lor granted. The Minicad 
and EZ-Draft testers a.ssigned this test an 
importance factor of 8, the AutoCAD tester 
gave it a 4, and ihe MGMStation tester 
gave it a 6. 

Task 19: Documentation and 

Online Help 

W’e asked the testers to examine the 
documentation supplied with the CAD 
software and to give heavy weight to tho- 
rough indexing, clear illustrations, online 
tutorials, and reasonable explanations of 
how to work each function. 

Results: MGMStation \w\i\ AutoCAD 
both received 8. EZ-Draft got a 7; Minicad 
was at the bottom with a 6. The importance 
factors w'ere in the 9 to 10 range, except for 
the MGMStation te.ster, who thought docu- 
mentation is wGrth a 7. 

Task 20: Installation 

Installation is something w^e take for 
granted on the Mac. In the MS-DOS w'orld, 
the process can involve up to a dozen or 
more disks and a great deal of trouble. This 
task takes into account the ease of in.stall- 
g ing of the .software. 

i Results: As expected, AutoCAD takes 
I more steps ( 6) and more time (900 .sec- 
I onds) to install than any .Mac package. The 
^ w'orst Mac package installed three times 
faster and took half as many steps. All 
testers thought this was important. 

Task 21: Personal Assessment 

'rhis task is the most subjective, but it 
may al.so be the most important. We asked 
the testers to ask themselves the following 
question: Would I really like to do all my 
design and drafting work with this .soft- 
ware? If the an.swer was an unqualihed yes, 
the system rated a 10. 

Results. If you're among the skeptics 
who doubt that personal computers-and 
the Mac in particular-are ready for CAD, 
the .scores for this test should give you 









Software 


Raw Score 
(seconds) 


Weighted Score 


AutoCAD 


60.13 


139.85 


Minicad 


“^2.00 


M5.00 


l-Z-Drafl 


253.00 


504.00 


MGM.Siaiion 


2*8.00 


487.00 



7able2 

Pesults of speed tests in Task Id. 



pau.se. All the products w^ere rated 9 or 10, 
which show's that these CAD users are very 
.satislied. What the.se .scores can’t tell you is 
which .system is the be.st. This is the rela- 
tive value problem I mentioned earlier. 

l.’nder “Comments,” ihe AutoCAD 
te.ster remarked that his system is slow' in 
picture regeneration; the EZ-Draft tester 
gave his system two ratings, a 10 on a Mac 
II and a 9 on a Mac Plus. 

Bottom Line 

As I warned at the start, it’s impo.ssible 
to construct a single CAD benchmark that’s 
both meaningful and objective. While the 
results of this benchmark suffer .somew'hat 
from the fact that the different testers have 
different ideas about w'hat’s good and 
w'hat s important, the te.sts do reveal a lot 
about the capabilities of Mac CAD .soft- 
ware. They should also make you aware of 
what the issues are w'hen you're evaluating 
CAD packages. If \'ou decide to duplicate 
this le.st yoLir.self, think carefully about the 
functions that are most important to you; 
drop items that aren’t relevant to your work 
and add other te.sts as required. 

As you can see from Figure 1, it was a 
close race. Depending on how you score 
the iesi, MGMStation is either the wan- 
ner or the runner-up behind A///oCAD. 
MGMStation loses according to the aver- 
aged .scores and wins according to the indi- 
vidual .scores. 

In the end, the most important thing 
the.se tests re\'eal is that there’s no dramatic 
difference between the functionality of 
AutoCAD and the Macintosh packages. It 
w'ould appear ihiii AutoCAD s popularity is 
more the result of marketing and suj:)pori 
strengths than technical superiority. 

As more mechanical designers di.scov- 
er the Macintosh, its .share of the CAD mar- 
ket will increa.se, which w ill mean even 
better products for consumers. Perhaps 
AutoDesk will even follow Versacad’s lead 
and come out with a true Mac version. □ 



.Macworld 121 




Excel Macro 



Treasury 



Top Excel experts offer their 
macro masterworks 



by Mary V. Campbell 



E 

M JxceTs macro facility 
is one of the package s strongest features. 
By letting you group sequences of complex 
commands into files that can be activated 
with a single keystroke, macros save time 
and aggravation. 

Although Excefs macro command 
language is easier to learn and use than 
some others, mastery of it still requires 
study, practice, and patience. Even with the 
record feature, which automatically re- 
produces a sequence of keystrokes, creat- 
ing a macro can be a formidable task for a 
new user. Add branching and other logic to 
the macro structure, and the macro debug- 
ging process may raise a novice’s frustra- 
tion level to intolerable heights. 

One way to smooth the learning path 
is to borrow macros written by experi- 
enced Excel users. These macros are al- 
ready in working order, and even if you 
need to modify one, the basic logic shell is 
complete. Not only do ready-made macros 
save time initially, they introduce you to 
techniques that you can add to your ow'n 
macros as you gain experience. 

Where will you find experienced Ex- 
cel users willing to share their macros? 
Business associates, u.ser groups, and bul- 
letin hoards are good possibilities. An- 



other option is to explore the books that 
have been written about Excel macros. 

This article presents a few macros from a 
book I have written on the subject (Excel 
Macro Lihra)y, Que Corporation, 1986), as 
well as macros from other sources. 

See Me in Ten Days 

Excel Macro Library covers both 
function and command macros. Our first 
selection from the book, Plus Weekday, is a 
function macro for finding a weekday that’s 
a specified number of days from the cur- 
rent date (see Figure 1). The macro must 
do more than simply add the number of 
days to the current date, since that sum 
could fall on a weekend or holiday. Week- 
day has many scheduling applications: 
homecwners, for example, might calculate 
a loan due date with it; doctors might use it 
to schedule follow-up visits. 

The first section of Plus Weekday per- 
forms housekeeping functions, including 
selling the weekday flag (Cl) and the holi- 
day flag ( C2 ) to 0 (both will be set to 1 
wiien a nonholiday weekday has been gen- 
erated). The next section checks w hether 
the date generated by adding the specified 
number of days to the initial date is a 
weekday. If the projected date does not 
pass the test, the macro adds one day and 
checks again. 

The Check Holiday routine in the ex- 
ample knows about only two holidays. 



Their dates are stored in B33 and B34. If 
the projected date matches either of these 
values, it is a holiday. 

The macro manipulates the j^rojected 
date until it reaches a nonholiday weekday, 
and then returns that date. You can add 
more dates to the Check Holiday routine by 
placing additional holiday dates in B3S and 
subsequent cells; to place more II' state- 
ments in the macro, add lines below^ /V33 
and create statements ihai follow ihls 
pattern: 

= IFICHECKDATE = B35,SET.VALUE(C2.0)) 

show's output from Plus Weekda\'. 




122 November I9S7 



ILLUSTRATIONS UV MAX SIIABAI <,H 




You can perform calculations with 
function macros like this one by recording 
the name of the macro sheet, the function 
macro name, and the macro s arguments 
(enclosed in parentheses) in the work- 
sheet cells. You cannot execute function 
macros from the macro menu or with a 
command option sequence the way that 
you can execute command macros. 

Mail Call 

The second example from Excel 
Macro Library is a command macro that 
creates mailing labels from database rec- 
ords (see Figure 2). 

The first instruction in Create Labels is 
a SELECT statement that in turn contains 
an INPUT statement. The in.struction dis- 
plays a prompt that asks you to select an 
area of the worksheet to receive the labels. 
The subsequent instructions select the top 
row of that area and an arbitrary' limit of 
the next SOO cells as the label area; v'ou can 
easily increase the limit to accommodate 
additional labels. The instruction in line 6 
assumes that the database was set before 
the macro was executed. Lines 7 through 9 
determine the maximum number of rows 
(since this equals the number of labels to 
be generated) and set other counters. 

The next section of the macro, 'Jbp 
Loop, is the real workhorse. It builds each 
line of the label by acce.ssing a row of data 



in the database. Instructions in this section 
increment the line and label counters, 
check to see if the macro has constructed 
the last label, and branch to the beginning 
of the loop. When Top Loop has completed 
its task, it selects the label area so you can 
prepare to print the labels. Depending on 
the size of your stickers, y'ou may wish to 
add an extra blank line between labels by 
changing the 4-3 in line 23 to +4. 

Search Me 

The next selection. Locator, comes 
from the Complete Book of Excel Macros, 
by Louis Benjamin, Don Nicholas, and the 
consultants of Lighthouse Publishing Ser- 
vices (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1986). This 
book serves the needs only of relatively so- 
phisticated Excel users, since it assumes a 
basic grounding in the Excel macro lan- 
guage. However, for the user who doesn’t 
require a lot of explanation, this valuable 
collection offers some unique macros. 

Locator is designed to select records 
in a database according to preestablished 
criteria (.see Figure 3). It is useful for doing 
searches that you execute on a periodic 
basis or each time the database is updated. 
For example, before producing certain re- 
ports, you might find it valuable to check 
your data for errors. With the proper 
search criteria in place, Locator makes im- 
plementing this safety measure a snap. 

The macro begins in A24 by activating 
the database window containing the search 
criteria. The criteria window should be set 
prior to executing the macro and can con- 
tain any valid criteria. The macro generates 
an alert box asking y-ou to confirm that the 
criteria have been set. 

'Fhe window containing the database 
to be searched is activated, and the area 
named srch_db is .selected prior to execut- 
ing the macro. 



Lines 33 through 43 of the macro 
make up a bop that finds the next record 
and checks to see if you want to continue 
searching. 

Error Eradication 

Douglas Hergert s book Microsoft Ex- 
cel with Macros (Microsoft Press, 1986) is 
in some ways the opposite of the Complete 
Book of Macros: it concentrates on ex- 
plaining macro facility, rather than 

providing a macro library. The book does 
contain some useful examples, however. 

Anyone who has ever made a series of 
data-entry mistakes will appreciate the first 
macro we’ll look at from this book. Called 
FixCase, it’s a command macro designed to 
correct string values entered inconsistently 
into a worksheet (see Figure 4). The macro 
standardizes all the selected entries in a 
database to the format used for proper 
nouns (initial capitals only) regardless of 
what form was used for data entry. 




.Macworld 123 




FixCase begins by esiablisliing string 
values for uppercase and lowercase letters. 
Line 5 determines the number of rows in 
the selection. The value of the first cell is 
determined and is ignored if it is not a 
string. The command macro invokes a 
function macro that provides the value of 
the current cell as the function argument. 

The first function macro, UpperLower, 
calls the function macro Upper to convert 
the first character to uppercase. Next, the 
function macro Lower kicks in to convert 
the remainder of the character string to 
lowercase. The two pieces are joined to- 
gether and returned to the command 
macro FixCase, which then looks at the 
next cell in the column. 

To Whom It May Concern 

Our last macro creates form letters 
(see Figure 5). The example in the book 
generates the library overdue notice 
shown in Figure 6, but you can adapt this 
macro to create form letters for billing, i\p- 
pointment scheduling, or any other pur- 
pose. The macro checks a dataha.se ( iiot 
shown) of library information to see if the 
current date is past the due date for a given 
book. If it is and if the book has not been 
returned, the macro generates an overdue 
notice. 

Before executing the macro, you must 
have entered the search criteria into a 
worksheet residing in the database to be 
searched. The criteria area should contain 
the code Rtnd with a value of False beneath 
it and NOW()-Date>15 with a value of Irue. 
Once the criteria have been entered, in- 
voke the Data Set Criteria command. 

The main macro begins by setting up 
the printer and opening the library infor- 
mation database. It checks for a recc:>rd 
matching the criteria and copies the appro- 
priate fields to the notice after activating it. 
The cycle continues with the database re- 
activated for a look at the next record. 

End 

The books represented here provide 
ready-to-use macros that will have you feel- 
ing like an expert in short order. And the 
aclvice offered by the authors will raise 
your skill level enough to justify that confi- 
dence. Keep practicing, and before you 
know it yoiril have a macro collection of 
your own to share. □ 

For information on the books mentioned 
in this article, see Where to Buy. 







A 1 


1 B 




16 


Plu5_Veekday 






17 


= ARGUMENTC "D AYS-PLUS , 1 ) 






10 


=ARGUMENfC*bATE",i) 






19 


=DATE+DAYS-PLUS 






20 


=SET .N AME( XHECKD ATE " , A 1 9) 






21 


=SET.VALUE(C1 ,0) 






22 


=SET.VALUE(C2,0) 






23 


Chk_Vkday 






24 


=SET.VALUE(C1 .1) 








= IF( AND( VEEKD AYCCHECKD ATE)> 1 . VEEKD AY(CHECKD ATE) 






26 


=SET VALUE(C2,0) 






27 


=SETNAME("CHECKDATE",CHECKbATE+b 






28 


=G0T0(Chk_Vkday) 






29 


Check-Holiday 






30 


=IF(AND(CI = 1 ,C2=O.G0T0(Return)) 






31 


=SET.VALUE(C2J) 






32 


=IF(CHECkbATE=B33,SET. VALUED 






33 


= IFCCHECKD ATE=B34 ,SET V ALUE(C2 ,0)) 


29944 




34 


=IF(AND(CI =1 ,C2=O,G0T0(Reiurn)) 


2^1 




35 


=SET.VALUE(Cip) 






36 


= IF(N0T(C2=0) ,G0T0(Chk_Vkday )) 






37 


=SET.NAME("CHECKDATE”,CHECKDATE+1) 






38 


=GOTO(Check-Holiday ) 






39 


Return 






40 


sCHECKDATE 






41 


=RETURN(A40) 






42 








43 


Day-jof-Veek _ 


day’® 




44 


=ARGUMENfC'bATE"/b 


1 




45 


=VL00KUP 








46 


=RETURN( 


=IF(AND(VEEKDAY(CHECKDATE)>1,VEEKDAY(CHECKDATE)<7), 


Figure 1 


GOTOCCheckJioliday)) 



The Pius Weekday niacm provides an example ofjlaj^s set to 
monitor whether conditions have been met. Lines 32 and 33 
also show how serial date numbers can be stored in other celts 
on the macro sheet and checked with IP statements. (Line 25 is 
shown in its entirety at the bottom.) 





A 




1 


Create-Labels 




2 


=SELECT(INPUT( "Select top cell in column to be used for label construction ’^8)) 




3 


=SET .N AMEC “TOP-ROW ", SELECT lONO) 




4 


«SELECT(T0P_R0V ;0FFSET(T0P-R0V,500,0)) 




5 


=SeTn AMECl AbEs " ,SEL^ 




6 


«SELECT( ‘DATABASE) 




7 


=seTname(**maximum 


^ROWSCSELECfiONCW 




8 


=SET.NAME( "COUNT-,1) 




9 


=SET N AMEC "L ABEL JCOUNT “ , 1 ) 




10 


Top-loop 




1 1 


«SELECTC INDEXCL ABELS ,L ABELJCOUNT , 1 )) 




12 


=SE ARCHC" .INDEXCID AT ABASE .COUNT .5) .1) 




ra 


=M IDC INDEXC ID AT AB ASE .COUNT .5) .DEREFC A 1 2)+2 .LENC INDEXC ID AT AB ASE .COUNT 




14 


=F0RMULACA13) 




15 


=SET .N AMEC "L ABEL JCOUNT " ,L ABEL JC0UNT+ 1 ) 




16 


=SELECTC INDEXCL ABELS ,L ABELJCOUNT , 1 )) 




17 


=M IDt; INDEXC ID AT AB ASE ,C0UNT ,6) , 1 ,LENC INDEXC ID AT AB ASE ,C0UNT ,6))) 




18 


=F0RMULACA17) 




19 


=^T N AMEC "L ABELJCOUNT " ,L ABEL JC0UNT+ 1 ) 




20 


=SELECTC INDEXCL ABELS ,L ABELJCOUNT , 1 )) 




21 


=M IDC INDEXC ID AT AB ASE ,C0UNT ,7) , 1 ,LENC INDEXC ID AT AB ASE ,C0UNT ,7))) 




22 


=F0RMULACA21) 




23 


=SET14AMEC"LABELJCOUNT-,LABELJCOUNT+3) 




24 


=SET N AMEC "COUNT ",C0UNT+ 1 ) 




25 


= IFCCOUNT >M AX IMUM ,G0T0C A27)) 




26 


=G0T0C Top-Loop) 




27 


=SELECTCLABELS) 






28 


sRETURNC) 


AbA5>t,LUUWI ,0,1 A I Z .LtPU. 

INDEXC 'D AT AB ASE ,C0UNT ,5))-CDEREFC A 1 2)+ 1 ))& “ "&M IDC 
INDEXC ID AT AB ASE ,C0UNT ,5) , 1 , DEREFC A 1 2)- 1 ) 


Figure 2 



This macro creates mailing labels in a column of your work- 
sheet. The label tines are hi tilt usin^i^ the lengthy string for- 
mulas in lines 13, 17, and 21. (Line 13 is shown in its entirety 
at the bottom.) 



124 November 1987 





A 


24 


Locator 


25 


Interactive database search 


26 


* Requires that qou pre-set criteria 


27 


=ACTIVATE("DB 1 :2“) 


28 


=ALERT("Click cancel if you haven't already set selection criteria".!) 


29 


=IF(N0T(A28).HALTQ) 


30 


= ACTIVATE("DB 1 .1") 


31 


=SELECT("srch_jdb'*) 


32 


=SET.DATABASE() 


33 


loop 


34 


=DAfA.FIND.NEXfO * 


35 


=INPUT("Locate next match ?*'.2. "Continue Search") 


36 


=IF(N0T(MID(A35.1 .1 )="y ").G0T0(Stop)) 


37 


= IF(found.GOTO(loop)) 


38 


No find 


39 


=ALERT(‘No additional matches found ".2) 


40 


End loop 


41 


Stop 


42 


=DATA.FIND(FALSE) 


43 


=RETURN() 



figure 3 

The licit abase luacro that locates matching records. Note the 
use of the documentation entry in line 26. The Alert instruc- 
tion (lines 2iS and 39) places a message on screen. 





A 


1 B 


1 


Command 


iFixCase 


2 




Option-Command-F 


3 


big 


= " ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOPQRTSUV VXY2 " 


4 


small 


1 = "abcdefghi jklmnopqrstu V wxy z " 


5 


items 


i=R0VS(SELECTi0NO) 


6 


inlabel 


i=^T!yE,c^i^ 


7 




l=IF(bR(fYPS)f^ati^ 


8 


outlabel 


=UpperLo\/er(inlabel) 


9 




=FORMULA(outlabel) 


10 


skip 


=SET.V ALUE(items .items- 1 ) 


1 1 




'*SELECT("Rl1 1C") 


12 




=IF(items >O.GOTOCinlabel)) 


13 




=RETURN() 


14 






15 


Function 


UpperLower 


16 




=ARGUMENTC'string") 


17 


firstchar 


=Upper(string) 


18 


length 


=LEN(string)-l 


19 


nextchars 


. = !F(length=0 . " " .Lo wer(M ibiistring .2 .length))) 


20 


concat 


j=firstchar&nextchars 


21 




=RETURN(concat) 


22 






23 


Function 


Upper 


24 




=ARGUMENT("upstr") 


25 


targetup 


=MID(upstr.1 .1) 


26 


uppos 


=SEARCH(tarqetup.smali) 


27 


upchar 


= IF( ISERROR(uppos) .targetup .MID(biq .uppos , 1 )) 


28 




=RETURN(upchar) 


29 






30 


Function 


Lover 


31 




= ARGUMENT("iowstr") 


32 


chars 


=LENOowstr) 


33 




=SET .N AMEC "lov/result " ") 


34 




=SET.N AMEC "counter".!) 


35 


targetlow 


=MIDClowstr.counter. ! ) 


36 


lowpos 1 


=SE ARCHCtargetlow .big) 


37 


lowchar 


*IFC ISERRORClowpos) .targetlow .M IDCsmall .lovpos . ! )) 


38 




=SET.NAMEC"lowresult".lowesult&lowchar) 


39 




=SET .N AMEC "counter " .counter + ! ) 


40 




=IFCcounter<=chars.GOTOCtargetlow)) 


41 




=RETURNClowresult) 



Figure 4 

An example of a command macro that executes a number of 
function macros. I'LxCase uses the function macro Upper- 
lower. Upperiower uses both Upper and Lower in turn. 





A 


1 B 


1 


iOverdue 


2 


!=6pENC "Notice") 


5 




=PAGE.SETUP("/' ,0.75 ,0.75,1 ,1 ,FALSE, FALSE) 


4 




=bPEN( "Books") 


5 




=SEI.Ecf("R!C1") 


6 


firstfind 


=bAf A.FiNbCTR^^^^ 


7 




=IF(:Nbf(:firstfind).GOTOCend)) 


8 


title 


=ACTIVE.CELLC) 


9 




=SELEcf(,Vcil]") 


10 


author 


= ACTIVE .CELLO 


1 1 




=SELECT(,"rc[1 ]") 


12 


borro>ver 


= ACTIVE .CELLO 


13 




=SELECT(,"rcil j") 


14 


duedate 


=ACflVE.CELL0+!4 


15 




=SELECT("rc[-3l") 


16 




=ACflVATEC'Notice") 


17 




=SELECT(!B4) 


18 




=FORMULAi:borrowerj 


19 




=SELECT(!C12) 


20 




=FORMULACtitle) 


21 




=SELECT(!C13) 


22 




=FORMULA(author) 


23 




=SELECT(!D15) 


24 




=FORMULACduedate) 


25 




=PRINT(!..J.1) 


26 




=ACTIVATE( "Books") 


27 


nextfind 


=DATA.FIND.NEXTO 


28 




=IF( ACTIVE .CELLO < >tit1e ,G0T0(tit1e)) 


29 


end 


=return6 



Figure 5 

A macro that generates library book overdue notices. The la- 
bels in the left column indicate instructions to build the vari- 
ous label entries. 





OVERDUE NOTICE 


To: 


John Que 


From: 


M. Brooks, Librarian 


Date: 


1/17/87 




This is lo remind you that a book you have 
borrowed from the company library is now 
overdue. The book is: 




Title: Chicago Manual of Style 

Author: U. of Chicago Press 




This book was due on: 1/14/87 




Please stop by the library at your earliest 




convenience to return or renew this book. 




Thank you. 



Figure 6 

A laser printout of the form letter created by the macro in Fig- 
ure 5. With a few modifications, the macro can produce let- 
ters for any purpose. 



Macworld 



125 



Beyond 

Black and White 



Color publishing without a color 
Mac-make your otm color 
separations in black and white 



by Jim Morton and Michael Mallety 

I 

n 1954 the Color Research In- 
stitute conducted a startling experiment. A group of 
consumers were asked to evaluate which of three laun- 
dry detergents cleaned their clothes the best. One de- 
tergent came in a yellow box, one came in a blue box, 
and the third came in a box that was predominantly 
blue with yellow splashes. After trying the detergents, 
the consumers complained that the yelkw brand w'as 
too harsh, while the blue left their clothes dirty. Unani- 
mously, they chose the detergent in the blue and yel- 
low box as the one that did the best job. Later they 
discovered that all the detergents w^ere the same. 

We re a long w'ay from 1954, but this color test 
demonstrates dramatically the effect color has on our 
perception of things. The clever use of color can sell a 
product, w'hile its misuse is often disastrous. This is as 
true in publishing as it is in advertising. A few w^ell- 
placed touches of color can turn an otherwise drab 
newsletter into a thing of beauty. 

When the lirsi Macintosh page-layout programs 
appeared, they w'ere limited to single-color layouts, 
usually black ink on white paper. Because the Macin- 
tosh display came in only one model-basic black and 
white-few' software designers bothered to explore the 




126 November 1987 




KIOTOCjKAPH UVmEDSTIMSON 



Macworld 127 



possibilities of color separation on the machine. It 
wasn’t considered an option. 

Gradually, patient designers learned to separate 
their publications into tw'o or more colors by hand, 
but true color separation just wasn’t possible. If you 
wanted a 30 percent red printed over an 80 percent 
yellow, you had to explain your design to the printers 
and let them do the work. 

With the introduction of the Mac II, color sud- 
denly became an issue, and programmers started 
working on ways to create color separations on the 
Macintosh. Although most of these programs are 
aimed at the Mac II market, a few imaginative software 
developers have introduced programs that enable you 
to create spot-color and four-color separations in black 
and white. By making your owm separations, you elimi- 
nate the costly process of photomechanical separation 
to produce negatives for offset printing. You also gain a 
little more control over the final product. 

Before we go into the specifics of Macintosh 
color-separation programs, a bit of background on 
various color processes is in order. 








i® 






1 















This blowu-up detail of the photograph on the previous page 
shows how process colors add up to produce full-color pic- 
tures. Improper angling or assembly of separations can cause 
moire patterns like the one at left. 



Spot Color 

Spot color is the most common type of color in 
desktop publishing. A newsletter with black type and a 
green border is an example of spot color. For simple 
layouts in wiiich the color elements don’t abut, there’s 
really no point in making your own spot separations. 
You simply indicate on a tissue overlay which portions 
of the publication should appear in color, and the 
printer does the rest, separating each color by care- 
fully masking different portions of each page on two 
negatives of the same original. 

For more complicated jobs-as, for example, when 
a colored headline is knocked out of a black back- 
ground-printers demand that you make \'our own 
overlays. The most popular desktop publishing solu- 
tion to this type of problem involves creating a master 
page containing all the page elements and then creat- 
ing twx) other files, one with all the black items re- 
moved and one with all the color items removed. This 
manual technique is tedious but it works, and until re- 
cently it was the only alternative. 

Process Color 

Since each color in a spot-color job requires a 
specially mixed ink and a separate press run, this ap- 
proach is generally used lor projects that recjuire only 
a few colors. Artists and designers who want a full 
range of colors generally use a system that enables 
them to generate virtually any color from only four 
basic shades. 

If you look closely at the illustration at the begin- 
ning of this article, you’ll notice that it is made up not 
of solid colors, but of dots. Just as printers use black 
dots of varying sizes to simulate different gray values, 
they use dot patterns composed of the (bur /process 
co/ors-yellow, cyan, magenta, and black-io simulate 
the full color spectrum. To achieve a desired shade, 
printers increase or decrease the size of the dots in 
each of the four process-color halftones; a denser ma- 
genta layer tilts the color to the red end of the spec- 
trum, more cyan adds a blue ca.st (see ‘Anatomy of an 
Illustration”). Halftone densities are specified as 
screen percentages; a 100 percent cyan screen would 
be solid cyan, while a 10 percent screen would be very 
light in color. 

To ensure that the dots constituting the four pro- 
cess-color layers overlay each other in a pleasing way, 
without creating distracting moire patterns, printers 
screen the four process-color halftones at preci.se an- 
gles. When the four colors are printed on top of one 
another, the angled dots combine to form a tight circle 
called a rosette. For four-color work, black would usu- 
ally be angled at 45 degrees, magenta at 75 degrees, 
yellow at 90 degrees, and cyan at 105 degrees. In the 
past, the inability to specify .screen angles was one of 
the things that kept desktop publishers from creating 
their owm color separations. 

To determine which combination of proce.ss col- 
ors will add up to a desired shade, artists and de- 



128 



November 1987 




signers use one of three methods. The first employs a 
device called a color wheel-a round paper disk with 
four disks of clear acetate fastened to it. Each of the 
acetate disks is printed with one of the four process 
colors in screen percentages ranging from 10 percent 
to 100 percent. By turning the disks you can create al- 
most any color imaginable. The most popular color 
wheel is the the Murphy Color Guide Wheel, which 
sells for around $30. Smaller wheels are available 
for about $10. 

The second method of finding colors involves a 
tint-chart book. Like the color wheel, tint charts con- 
tain every possible combination of the four process 
colors in 10-percent increments-a total of over 14,000 
possible colors. To use these charts you simply choose 
the color you want and then look up the screen values 
that correspond to that particular color swatch. You 
can find tint charts in many graphic arts books, or buy 
them separately. Comprehensive tint-chart books can 
cost up to $120, but less-inclusive books in the $30 to 
$40 range are sufficient for most people. 

The third method of choosing colors is based on 
the Pantone Matching System (PMS). The Pantone sys- 
tem, which was designed mostly for spot-color work, 
uses ink mixtures rather than process-color screen 
percentages to create colors, but for around $85 you 
can buy a book that lists the screen percentages re- 
quired to reproduce the Pantone colors. This system 
gives you access to some shades you woLild never 



Anatomy of an Illustration 

Combining the four process-color layers above yields the full- 
color ilhistration shown below. Illu.strator was used to create 
this image and to specify the color percentages for each part of 
the mouse. The four separations were printed directly to nega- 
tive at a 133- line screen ruling using Adobe's Separator utility 
and a Linotronic-100. 





Macworld 129 



achieve with a color wheel. If you can afford to pur- 
chase only one color system, however, yoif re better off 
with a color wheel, since the Pantone system provides 
for only about 500 colors. 

XPress 

Quark XPress is a powerful page-layout program 
that incorporates many of the best features oi Page- 
Maker and ReadySetGo 3.0, as well as adding a few 
features of its own. One of these is tlie ability to create 
spot-color separations automatically. 

XPress lets you assign one of nine colors to text 
elements or borders, either during the layout process 
or after the page is complete. When you click on the 
Make Separations button in the Print dialog box, 
the program automatically prints a separate page- 
complete with trim and center marks-for each color 
you Ve included in your scheme. (A clarification: al- 
though XPress lets you specify color inten.sity using 
screen percentages, the pn^gram offers no method of 
angling screens or combining colors. A color placed 
under another color simply won't print.) 

Since spot-color is something many desktop pub- 
lishers want, including a separating function in a page- 




Figure 1 

Cricket Dnvw's obscure cu id ohsciirety named Transfer Mode 
dialog box prorides a clumsy but effect ire mechanism for set- 
ting screen angle and ruling. 



layout program is a good idea. Quark's implementa- 
tion, however, leaves a few things to be desired. 

One caveat for publishers who use LaserWriter 
output is that the active page size for separated Xpress 
hies is only 7 by 9 V 2 inches. When you include the au- 
tomatic registration marks on the page-which most 
publishers will want to do-the program pushes the 
page image down and to the right. Any part of the im- 
age that falls within 1 inch of the bottom or right-hand 
edges of the page won’t print. (This quirk isn't a prob- 
lem with Linotronic output, since the printer sheet size 
is bigger than 9 V 2 by 11.) 

Another limitation is that the program gives you 
only live preselected choices, between 10 and 80 per- 
cent, for choosing screen percentages. This is a bit 
crude: you cannot, for example, specify a 30 percent 
screen tint, becau.se that’s not one of your options. 

Cricket Draw 

The PostScript drawing program Cricket Draw 
was the first Mac package to offer screeii-angle com- 
mands. Before Cricket Draw's arrival, the only way to 
change .screen angles was via direct PostScript pro- 
gramming. Oddly, Cricket Software neglected to dis- 
cuss the proce.ss for creating specially angled screens 
in the Cricket Draw documentation. 

Separating colors with Cricket Draw is a slow 
process, similar to the manual methods Mac arti.sts de- 
veloped lor creating spot color. First you must create a 
master file tliat contains all the picture elements, lay- 
ered from top to bottom as you want them to print 
(don’t forget to include some form of registration 
'marks outside the image area). Close the master 
file and then open a copy to begin specifying your 
first process color. \bu will create a separate file 
for each color. 

Specify the screen percentage of the first color for 
each object in y(3ur drawing by double-clicking on the 
object and entering the desired percentage in the hll- 
and line-intensity boxes. If an object doesn't contain 
any of the color in question, set the fill and line inten- 
sities for that object at zero percent. Save the file with 
an appropriate suffix such as -cyn, -mag, -ylw; or -blk. 

Next, to set the .screen angle and ruling, .select the 
entire picture and click on the fill-pattern box in the 
lower-left corner of the screen while holding down 
the Option key. Doing so calls up the Transfer Mode 
dialog box (see Figure 1). Clicking on the Dot button 
presents two new choices: Frequency and Angle. Fre- 
quency refers to the number oNines per inch; you can 
choose any number up to 200 lines per inch (becau.se 
of the way Cricket Draw's screen-angle algorithm 
works with the LaserWriter, we got the best results for 
laser output at the default setting of 72 ). Set the angle 
for the cyan, magenta, or yellow file to 105, 75, or 90 
degrees, respectively You don't need to .set the angle 
for the black file, since the program defaults to 45 de- 
grees. Once you’ve completed one color, repeat the 
process for the other three. 

Notice that the dialog box for selecting fill and 
line inten.sity includes a command for color. This com- 



130 



November 1987 






A Separator of a Different Color 



Comirex has introduced a pack- 
age for its Imagi'/er video dig- 
itizer that enables Mac owners 
to make separations using the 
same system most print shops 
do now. Tlie I magizer system 
uses a high-resolution black- 
and-white video camera that 
connects, via a special inter- 
face, to the printer port on 
the Mac Plus or SE. The color- 
separation accessory includes 
software for specih'ing screen 
angles and line frequency and 
a set of color filters. \l)u can 
mount the 1 magizer camera on 
a copy stand or tripod to make 
separations of Hat work or 
direct video images. 

'Hie programs discussed in 
this article create what are 
called mechanical color sep- 
arations. A designer creating 
mechanical color must choose 
screen j:)ercentages for each 
shade; if you want an area to 
print green, you indicate the 
pi\)per screen percentages on 
the cyan and yellt)w overhn s. 
Color photographs are printed 
using the same four ink colors 
as are used in mechanical sep- 
arations, but the technique for 
creating the separations is 
quite different. A camera is 
used, and succe.ssive exposures 
are made using filters that 
screen out the unwanted colors 
on each negative. (Although 
both mechanical and photo- 
graphic separations use pro- 
cess colors, only the photo- 
graphic separations are 
referred to as process color 
separations . ) 

The I magizer enables you to 
create true process color sep- 
arations of anything except re- 
productions that have already 
been screened. Once youVe 
made your four exposures, you 
can readjust the contrast and 



brightness for any of the nega- 
tives at any lime, w hich saves 
you from having to reshooi in 
order to readjust your color 
mix. Since Imagizer files are 
saved as TII’E documents, they 
can be manipulated with Lei- 
Imap^eStudio. With hti- 
ageStnclio, you can make detail 
corrections and changes to any 
size area on each negaiive-a 
feat previously available only to 
print shops using sophisticated 
scanners and image-assembly 
stations. 

The biggest limitation of the 
Imagizer system is its inability 
to handle large reproductions. 
Comirex s black-and-white 
video camera has a resolution 
of 7S0 lines per inch-nearly 
three times the re.soluiion of a 
standard home video camera. 
How'ever, the system wx>rks b\’ 
dividing the video image into a 
constant number of cells. Each 
cell contains gray-scale infor- 
mation for the tone in that .seg- 
ment of the picture: how that 
information is used de|'>ends 
on several factors, such as the 



size of the final reproduction, 
the number of dots per inch 
you select for output, and the 
type of printer being used. A 
photo that covers an entire 
page will have only the .same 
amount of information as one 
that covers a three-inch .scjuare, 
and will look noticeably w'orse 
even when both are printed on 
the vsame device using the .same 
screen frequency. 

In spite of these drawbacks, 
it is now' po.ssible to create four- 
color process photographs 
with a Maciniosh-an amazing 
accomplishment that signals a 
new' era in Mac software. Many 
of the skills and techniciues 
previously available only to 
people in the printing profes- 
sion are now' available to desk- 
top publishers. Given the 
speed with which this ecjuip- 
ment can create LaserWriter 
and Linotronic copies, in a few 
years we may see the Imagizer 
and systems like it replace the 
traditional photostat cameras in 
many print shops and repro- 
duction hou.ses. 




\Kv used the imagizer lo cufuure this stilt life directly and then 
printed the sepetrations cm paper with a LaserWriter Mgatires 
were made from the laser copy by conretttional meents. 



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VICTORIA FlXm) 




Color in Color 

The techniques discussed in 
this article nr<\ke color j:>ublisli- 
ing possible on a black-and- 
white Mac, but the natural Mac- 
intosh platform for color work 
of all types will be the Mac II. 
As this article went to press, 
two publishers had announced 




Thu tu[) photo is ti 
stancktni separation. 
The bottom one was 
scanned from a slide, 
separated on a Mac II 
with Lithographer, and 
printed to negative on 
a linotronic. 



systems that enable Mac II 
users to actually see their work 
on screen while making color 
separations. 

In New York, Knowledge En- 
gineering is working on two 
programs that together turn 
the Mac II into a color desktop 
publishing station.y//s77eA7 // 
is an updated version of Bill 
Batess pow'erful page-composi- 
tion package. The new color 
version accepts images from a 
second program, Utbograpber, 
which enables you to capture 
and edit images from a color 
scanner. 

Utbograpber is still com- 
mand driven, like the original 
JustText, but Bates promises 
that at least it will be more 
WYSIWYG. The program has a 
w ide variety of tools for pro- 
cessing images, as W'cll as some 
color draw- and paint capa- 
bilities. It’s capable of taking 
densitometer readings into ac- 
count when printing, allowing 
a level of control over the final 
j:>roduct on a par with expen- 
sive image-assembly worksta- 
tions. Another mark o^Litbo- 
grapber's professionalism is 
that it prints industry-standard 
color bars beneath the active 
page area (these are the color 
tests printers use to check their 
ink coverage). The Knowledge 
Engineering programs can save 
hies in PostScript or EPSE for- 
mat, but color work must be 
dow^n loaded using Knowiedge 
Engineerings Document Man- 
ager dow-nloading utility. 

Pixel-Craft of New York is 
also preparing a one-tw-o 
punch for creating color art- 
work. Kaleidoscope is a full- 
color drawing program that 
works with the Mac II. It en- 
ables you to create shapes and 
shade them with various tint 
combinations, displaying the 



resulting colors on the screen 
as you w'ork. 

Heaven, the second half of 
the Pixel-Craft system, can cre- 
ate Ibur-color separations from 
color video images. Unlike the 
Imagizer System (see ‘A Sep- 
arator of a Different Color”), 
Heaven does not require hlters 
or separate shots for each color 
printer. Instead it interprets the 
RGB or digital signal from color 
video monitors and uses that 
to create the standard process- 
color separations. Heaven 
saves documents in its ow'n for- 
mat, but they can easily be con- 
verted to PostScript hies via a 
conversion program. 

Cricket Softw^are has an- 
nounced a Mac II version of 
Cricket Draw. It will maintain 
the MacDraw-Wke interface of 
the current program and will 
create color separations for any 
of 256 predehned colors. (You 
will not be able to enter per- 
centages to create a color not 
on the on-screen palette.) The 
system gives you few'er colors 
than some other Mac II color 
separation softw^are, but it does 
ensure that wiiat you see on the 
screen closely matches your 
output. As of this w^riting no 
hrm release date has been set. 

Compared to Scitex and 
other high-end color image- 
as.sembly systems, these Mac II 
programs are still fairly crude. 
But they don’t cost $700 an 
iiour to operate, either. Consid- 
ering that they represent only 
the hrst generation of Macin- 
tosh-based color separation 
software, they are astounding. 

It is conceivable that within two 
years the effect of this technol- 
ogy on the printing industry 
will be no less dramatic than 
the effect desktop publishing 
has had on the typesetting 
industry. 



132 November 1987 




mand is primarily for use with the ImageWriter II and a 
color ribbon. It has no effect on color separations, so 
leave it on Black at all times. You should also be aware 
that Cricket Draw's screen-angle feature does not 
work with Laser\Vriters~only with LaserWriter Pluses. 

At press time Cricket Draw was just going into 
beta on a version (1.1) the company says will automate 
the .separation process. That improvement ma\' be 
available by the time you read this, but as described to 
us it didn't .sound very u.seful. The beta implementa- 
tion enables you to u.se the (ill dialog box to specify 
one of the eight QuickDraw colors for any object in a 
drawing; when you print, the program calculates the 
rec|uired percentages and makes proce.ss-color separa- 
tions. The program offers no j:)rovi.sion for specifying 
an\' colors other than the QuickDraw set, however. In 
our opinion, anyone going to the trouble of printing 
four-color separations of Mac graphics is going to want 
more than eight colors. Perhaps (ilrickei will see the 
light before final publication. 

LaserPaint 

LaserPaint's color separation function is far more 
intelligent than Cricket Draw's. The biggest difference 
between the two systems is that LaserPaint doesn’t re- 
quire you to make four pa.sses through four separate 
files. Instead, you use a single dialog box to set the 
percentages of all four proce.ss colors for every object 
in a picture (see Figure 2). If you want to .separate for a 
PMS color, LaserPaint makes the process even easier; 
you simply enter the PMS number of the color you 
want an object to be, and LaserPaint supplies the 
appropriate screen percentages. The program sets 
screen angles for you and automatically adjusts the 
finene.ss of the screen to the output device you're 
using, printing with a 72-line screen on a laser printer 
and a 120-line .screen on a Linotronic (if you want to 
change these .settings, you must edit tlie PostScript 
code directly). 

LaserPaint also gives you an option for working 
with .solid Pantone colors instead of process separa- 
tions. When you push the Sep Line Color button in the 
color configuration box, LaserPaint prints a separate 
.solid overlay, complete with registration marks, for 
every PMS color you’ve chosen. 

LaserPaint tries to be as WYSIWYG (what you 
see is w'hat you get) as po.ssible. For example, it a.ssigns 
a specific pattern to every color you use, enabling you 
as far as po.ssible to visualize \’our color creations in 
black and wiiite. While this approach has advantages, 
too much realism isn’t always desirable. When you 
draw' with a zero line w idth in LaserPaint, w'hat you 
see is exactly what you get-nothing. Ofcour.se you 
can draw your picture and then go back through and 
set all the lines to zero, but with complex shapes it’s 
easy to miss a line or tw'o and not discover your mis- 
takes until after the separations have been printed. 

LaserPaint also falls behind the other programs 
mentioned here in its handling of layers. Unle.ss you 



u.se the Mask tool to specifically tell the program that 
a certain object covers parts of other objects, Laser- 
Paint v^on\ remove the hidden lines and fills. All the 
layers simply print on top of one another. 

LaserPai?it files can be saved in PostScript, EPSF, 
and TIFF formats as well as in the program's ow'n pro- 
prietary file format. As with Cricket Draw, however, 
no page-layout program can open a separated Laser- 
Paint file. The people at LaserW'are bill LaserPaint as 
an all-purpose draw ing and page-layout program (to 
prove this claim, they laid out their instruction manual 
w ith it), but LaserPamt cannot do all the things a true 
page-layout program should do. For example, it can’t 
open formatted Word or MacWrite documenis-you 
must completely reformat such documents in 
LaserPaint. 

Unlike Cricket Draw, LaserPaint does not emu- 
late iheMacDraw format. People used to working 
with Draw-Wke graphics programs will find Laser- 
Paint difficult to learn. The toolbox has more dials, 
buttons, and knobs than the cockpit of a Boeing 747, 
and .some procedures work only wlien they’re per- 
formed in a specific order. The problem is com- 



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pouluied by a manual that's so poorly wriiicMi that it 
actually interferes with learning the program 

Nonetheless, LaserPahu is currently the only 
program that supports the Panione Matching Sys- 
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The best solution to four-color separation on the 
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tor, Adobe wisely foresaw the day when some people 
would want to move past black-and-white graphics. 
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specifying four-color screen tints. Adobe's \m^\\ Sep- 
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Further Reading 

Color separation and the 
graphic arts in general involve 
a world of ob.scure terms and 
concepts. To help you under- 
stand and use these terms, we 
recommend the following ref- 
erence books. Each one is both 
comprehensive and readiK’ 
available. 

Pocket Pal. Pt)ckei Pal Books, 
International Paper Company, 
New'\brk, New' York. $4.25. 

Graphic Designers Produc- 
tion Handbook, by Norman 
Sanders. Hastings House Pub- 
lishers, New' York, New'\brk. 

89.95. 

The Graphic Designer's Hand- 
book, New Revised Edition, by 
Alastair Campbell. Running 
Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylva- 
nia. 814.95, plus $1.00 postage 
and handling. 

GraphicMastei; Third Edition, 
by Dean Phillip Lem. Dean Lem 
Associates, Los Angeles, Califor- 
nia. 857.50. 

Edwards Brothers Graphic 
Arts Glossary. P.O. Box 1007, 

Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Free. 

The Copy to Press Handbook: 
Preparing Words and Art for 
Print, by Judy E. Pickens. John 
Wilev Ik Sons, New' York, New' 

York.' $45.00 

The Print Production Hand- 
book, by David Barm. North 
Liglu^Yiier’s Digest Books, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. $14.95. 






.November 1987 



to color information. C()nseqiiently, 
can separate tiles created only from programs that ad- 
here to the Adobe version of EPSF-namely, Adobe //- 
liistrator and, to a lesser extent, PageMaker 2.0. 

If you have experimented with Illustrators four- 
color features, you may have noticed that whenever 
the Color button is selected, the % Black box defaults 
to zero. Reselecting Black causes the color boxes to 
turn gray and re.set themselves to zero. But many 
times, a desired color is only po.ssible when you add a 
touch of black. To get around this problem, select the 
Color button and set the screen percentages for cyan, 
magenta, and yellow. Then, without clicking on the 
Black button, double-click inside the 96 Black box and 
set the percentage to the desired amount. Press Return 
and all four screen percentages will be saved in the 
document (see Figure 3). 

Perhaps the most powerful feature of Separator is 
its ability to combine Illustrator and PageMaker 2.0 
into a full four-color page-layout system. \bu can now 
create and color graphics, borders, and display type in 
Illustrator, save them in EPSF, and place them on a 
page in PageMaker The EPSF drawings retain their 
color information. All you have to do then is save your 
PageMaker file as an EPSF document, using the EPS 
button in the Print dialog box, and print your separa- 
tions using Separator 

Separating Dross from Gold 

A decision about which graphics or desktop pub- 
lishing program you use probably won’t depend on 
the program’s color separation features alone. You 
have to look at the total picture. Quark XPress makes 
creating spot-color separations easier, for example, but 
that feature alone won’t justify switching from a page- 
layout program you’re already comfortable with. In 
some ways, Quark's system is less versatile and less 
useful than the old manual method. 

If you want a good, easy-to-use PostScript draw- 
ing program, and \ou occasionally need to make color 
separations, Cricket Draw is a good choice. The pro- 
gram's color-separating features are cumbersome, but 
it’s a far simpler drawing tool to use than either Laser- 
Paint or Illustrator Anyone familiar with MacDraw 
can be up and running with Cricket Draw in 15 
minutes. 

If you intend to make color separations frequently, 
you'll need more power than Cricket Draw can pro- 
vide. laserPahiPs pattern metaphor and its ability to 
create PMS shades would make it our first choice if the 
interface weren’t so difficult to master. Only after sev- 
eral tries, many headaches, and a visit to the LaserWare 
offices were we able to achieve the results w'e wanted. 

The clear winner here is Separator-bec^xusQ it 
works so well with Illustrator, which is rapidh* becom- 
ing the new standard for PostScript graphics, but 
mostly because it lets you create full-color publications 
using PageMaker Separator also produced the best 
ro.settes and the mast accurate screen tints and worked 
the fastest of the programs we looked at. 



All of these programs fall short of being full- 
featured four-color separation programs. The most se- 
rious omission is the lack of a trap capability. When- 
e\'er two or more colors print next to each other 
without blending, the lighter color should overlap the 
other color slightly, so that no gap shows when the two 
are printed. In all of the programs reviewed here, you 
can work around the lack of a trap feature by varying 
the line widths of the lighter-colored objects, but that’s 
a tedious process at best. 

The ability to make color separations on the Mac 
is a major personal-computer breakthrough. The tech- 
niques described in this article not only make color 
separations possible, but they also make separating 
graphics easier and cheaper than with the old graphic- 
arts methods, which sometimes required an artist to 
mask six, eight, ten, or more overlays by hand. 

Since this new* Mac capability will probably in- 
duce more Mac publishers to add color to their work, 
two caveats are in order. The first is that color is still 
expensive. Despite savings on .separations, you still 
have to pay for a separate press run for each color. 

And don’t overlook typesetting costs. Outputting four- 
color halftones on a laser printer works fine for car- 
toons and .small illustrations, but any high-quality, 
close-registration color work should be printed direct 
to negative on a Linotronic 300. 

The second warning is that while the Mac has 
made color work easier, you still have to know some- 
thing about graphic arts and printing to get the results 
you want. This warning is especially pertinent when 
you consider the cost of printing color materials. 
Whether the Mac II programs now beginning to arrive 
(see “Color in Color’’) will make Mac color printing 
more accessible-or merely more sophisticated- 
remains to be seen. In the meantime, if you have the 
know-how for color printing-and the budget-and 
have been saxing your mone\* for a Mac II, \ ou can 
stop waiting. You don’t need color to do color. □ 

At press time Adobe informed us that it was postpon- 
ing the release o/Separator. Well keep you posted as 
we learn of new developments.-Ed. 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



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135 



What’s in a Window? 

How the Mac II stands up against other 




by Matt Zeiden berg 



T 

«JLhe Macintosh II 

brings Apple into the workstation market: 
it has a large high-resolution bit-mapped 
screen, a mouse, and computing power 
comparable to a DEC VAX minicomputer. 
Before, we were limited to choosing 
among w'orkstaiions from Sun Micro- 
systems, Apollo, or Digital Equipment; to- 
day the Mac II offers similar performance 
and options-but how do these systems 
compare? 

Apples modified version of UNIX, 

A/ UK, codeveloped by Unisoft of Berkeley, 
California, was announced last March. Al- 
though by August it was still nowhere on 
the horizon, we can assume that Apple 
will push the product to completion, but 
perhaps not this year. This delay in A/UX 
availability has produced a sizable gap in 
Apple’s product-line extension into the sci- 
entific and engineering marketplace. In re- 
cent years, w'e’ve seen much effort expend- 
ed on software development for other 
UNIX-based workstations: at Carnegie- 
Mellon (the Andrew project), M.I.T (Proj- 
ect Athena), Sun Microsystems, and a host 
of other companies. If Apple is to be com- 
petitive within the education and engi- 
neering markets, it must produce a ver- 
sion of UNIX comparable to those of other 
vendors. 

As a group, workstations share some 
system characteristics that the Mac II does 
not currently support. While the Mac II can 
connect over a high-speed Ethernet net- 
work. it neither allows users to log on to 
remote workstations on the network nor 
provides for true multitasking. Further- 
more, the Mac II doesn't compare favorably 
with the workstation mechanisms that al- 
low files to be shared among network 
users. Theoretically, the Mac II with an 
EtherTalk c'dvd, AppieShare, and Multi- 
Finder could claim to have workstation ca- 



Macworld 137 



pahililics. Ikil willioul ihc ax.iil.ibiliiy ul 
.*\ I A. Mac OS hased Apple pn *diicis can- 
not really compare in perlomuiu e to their 
w( )rk.siati( hi C( )unter|)art.s, 

I nlike the Mac OS. I NI\ provides 
true coiKurrency-allowinu ap| »lu aiion.s to 
run simulianeou.sly in se|xir.iie w indt)Ws. 

I N IX also supports a versatile, it arcane, 
commaiKl language 

Ca Hicurreni applications i an commu 
nicate, and lIo in >i conflict oi t « h nipt oilier 
u.sers data, since hies can Ik’ I« k ki*d or pro 
lecied. Some I N IX versions siijqxjrt rir- 
tual motiory { 'd technic |uc‘ f< h sw apping 
tasks in and out ot K.\M) so that ihey ap- 




pear to have access to virtually unlimited 
system memory. Finally, there is already an 
installed base of 80,000 high-performance 
I iNIX-based workstations. 

The major complaint about UNIX is its 
steep learning curve. The windowing sys- 
tems aitemi-it to remedy this situation by 
providing a u.ser-friendly “front end.” If 
ihe\' do indeed provide an easy-to-learn 
u.ser environment, UNIX might become a 
standard operating system for personal 
Cl >mpuiers. 

One strong argument for such a case 
is the C language in which most of the 
I INIXsy.stem is written. Software written 
in C (or Fa.scal ) for UNIX is relatively port- 
able, especially since most workstations 
and their software are developed for Mo- 
torola’s 68020 microprocessor. This has 
also helped make the UNIX-based work- 
station market very competitive in price 
and functionality. To date, Sun Micro- 
systems has the largest installed base of 
workstations, partly becau.se of its vast 
library of .software and its competitive 
I'Ji'icing. 

In entering this market, Apple faces 
two dilemmas. First, it does not have the 
marketing, .sale.s, technical support, or 
training programs necessary to gain a sig- 
nilicant share of the vast market for low- 
co.si W'orksiaiions. .Second, it must decide 
whether to support software applications 
available on other LINIX-ba.sed worksta- 
tions or to make its existing applications 
compatible with A/UX. By making the ma- 
jority of Ibolbox Calls available to applica- 
tions, Apj:)le is encouraging developers to 
make their existing applications run under 
A/UX. Whether developers choo.se to do 
so remains to be .seen. Apple will also seek 
support from the tradional UNIX. software 
suppliers, a move that would take the com- 
pany out of its current markets and into un- 
familiar territory. 

Still remaining, though, is the di.s.sat- 
isfaction of .some UNIX u.sers over being 
forced to use an Apple-dictated window in- 
terface, rather than being allowed to devel- 
op their own environments. The que.stion 
u\'A/UXs compatibility with other window 
.sy.stems is a crucial one. Of the existing 
windowing sy.stems, the following three 
are likelv to have the greatest influence on 
UNIX for the Mac II. 

The X Window' System 

I'he X Window System, developed 
at M.I.1! partly for the Project Athena 
computers-in-education program, uses a 



client-server model. The availability of 
4.3 Berkeley UNIX .source code for X has 
made it one of the more popular window 
systems at universities. Tools for u.se with 
this system continue to be developed at 
various sites around the ct)untry. Several 
manufacturers support X; DEC funded 
much of its development and has released 
a proprietary version of it. Since much of 
the code is the property of M.I.T., once 
UNIX is available on the Mac II, versions of 
X are likely to be provided at no charge. X 
is an excellent window system, especially 
considering the price. 

X Windows (X/VCO runs as a server 
proce.ss, servicing requests for applications 
(called clients). The application proce.ss 
.sends a message to the window* system 
server, asking it to draw' the window'. This 
contrasts w ith the Mac’s method of creat- 
ing graphics in window's. When an applica- 
tion such as MacPaint w'ants to draw' a 
w'indow', it calls a Toolbox procedure in the 
Macintosh ROM. 

The client-server method has several 
advantages: it works well on a network, en- 
abling an application to run on one ma- 
chine w’hile sending me.s.sages to display 
windows on another; it lets both client and 
.server proce.sses run concurrently; it al- 
lows numerous clients to u.se a single .serv- 
er, .so multiple processes run on a single 
display; and it permits a single client appli- 
cation to .send information to many servers 
in a network. The server manages win- 
dow's as separate processes, and it offers 
users a variety of w'indow' managers from 
which to choose. 

X, like the Macintosh, u.ses re.sources 
(w'indow's, fonts, images, and cursors); cli- 
ents allocate resources by requesting them 
from the .server. X allows resource sharing 
by granting access to any client that know's 
the resource’s unique identifier. For exam- 
ple, different applications can output to a 
single W'indow'. 

X provides for a hierarchy of w'inckjws 
that can, in turn, contain subwindow's up to 
an unlimited level of ne.sting. The entire 
.screen is called the root window. Window 
nesting allows an individual application, 
typically contained w'ithin a single window; 
to u.se all the facilities of X in handling its 
ow'n subw'indows. For in.siance, one might 
have on the .screen the system clock, an 
icon repre.senting the lile system, and two 
applications (a w'ord proce.ssor and a 



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multiple applications to run on a workstation is 
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database) running at the same time-each 
in its own window on a large screen. The 
word processor might contain several over- 
lapping subwindows containing individual 
documents, while the database window 
might contain several subwindows show- 
ing data sorts on different fields. 

X allows different commands to be at- 
tached to specific keys on the keyboard- 
the specific attachments are programmable 
by the user. 

Andrew 

Developers of the Andrew system 
saw as their goal the networking of all 



Carnegie-Mellon student and faculty work- 
stations to enhance campus productivity. 
Although the project was financed by IBM, 
initial development was done on VAXs and 
Sun workstations, since IBM did not then 
have a ^workstation of sufficient quality. 
Noww IBM PC and Macintosh versions of An- 
drew are in the works, and because source 
code for Andrew has been widely distrib- 
uted around the country, much additional 
development is under w'ay. 

Designed in conjunction with a net- 
work file system, Andrews’s window system 
allows workstations on the network to ac- 
cess files anwhere. Workstations are 



grouped into dusters, with each one con- 
nected as a local area network. The clus- 
ters, each with its own file server, are 
grouped in another local area netw^ork. 

The system also allows for phone line 
communications. 

Andreww’s window system is different 
from most others in its use of tiling, which 
does not allows windows to overlap on the 
screen. This speeds window management. 
If there are too many windows on the 
screen, they can be reduced or eliminated. 
Andrew uses pop-up menus, visible any- 
where in a window. Since menus lie on top 
of one another like a fanned-out deck of 
cards, any of them can be readily selected. 

Like X, the Macintosh Toolbox, and 
News, Andrew supports programming 
procedures to draw windows, to paint text 
in various fonts, to draw, and to handle 
menus and input. 

Andrew supports a variety of data 
types with associated user interfaces, such 
as buttons, documents, and scroll bars. It 
also has a built-in database that allows rec- 
ords to be displayed in various ways. You 
can construct indexes on various fields in 
the database to produce sorted lists, and 
the program supports a simple query lan- 
guage. The database makes it relatively 
easy for applications to integrate large 
amounts of data. 

Of the three window systems de- 
scribed, Andrew has the most application 
software, including a text editor that sizes 
text to fit the shape of the window that con- 
tains it. In addition, the standard UNIX 
command interpreter (the shell) has been 
adapted so that you can use a cut-and-paste 
editor when typing commands; it also pro- 
vides a scrollable history of your interac- 
tions with the system. 

Andrew supports various paint pro- 
grams, as well as applications that can di.s- 
play files as icons and others that explicitly 
show the tree structure of UNIX s hier- 
archical file system (much like the Mac s 
System). Andrew also has electronic mail 
and bulletin board utilities. 

Much of the development effort at Car- 
negie-Mellon is going into educational soft- 
ware. Andrew already supports a communi- 
ty of hundreds at the university, a working 
laboratory for the system. Although most 
users seem relatively satisfied, some are 
concerned about Andrew’s reportedly slow 
performance. 



Desktop Environment 



Andrew 



News 



Window 

Management 



•; 1 



ft 



overlapping 



tiled 



overlapping 






or tiled 



Menus 









pop-up 
on mouse 
button click 



stacked 



variety including pop-up, 



File 


Edit 1 







stacked, and pull-down 



The user interface differs for each of the three 
window systems. The two styles of window man- 
agement are overlapping and tiled. Menus can 
be pop-up, stacked, or pull-down. 



140 November 1987 




News 

Sun Microsystems describes its NeWS 
(Network Extensible Window System) as a 
second-generation window system, in con- 
trast to X and Andrew. Extensible describes 
how the server allows application pro- 
grams to define their own functions for 
their own use. 

News is programmed in PostScript, 
which Sun has extended to deal with win- 
dowing, and its server runs on worksta- 
tions. When a client application constructs 
its user interface, it transmits a PostScript 
program to NeWS, which interprets it 
and paints the appropriate image on the 
screen. The client can also send a Post- 
Script function definition to the server, 
which is retained in the server’s memory 
for as long as the server remains connect- 
ed to the client. Since commonly used 
command sequences need not be repeat- 
ed, the results are a significant reduction in 
client/server communications and im- 
proved performance. 

Its extensibility makes NeWS far more 
customizable than either X or Andrew. By 
directly programming the server, the client 
application can reprogram the user inter- 
face to resemble X, Andrew, the Macintosh 
Finder, or any other window system. 

A variety of utility functions enables 
you to program parts of the user interface, 
such as menu styles and window manage- 
ment techniques. Using applications with 
different interface styles is not a problem- 
you can run them concurrently, easily 
switching back and forth between, say, an 
application with pull-down menus and one 
with hierarchical menus. And because 
News translates display commands for ev- 
ery device it supports, NeWS clients can 
automatically access the power of any 
display device without any additional 
programming. 

PostScript allows the NeWS client ap- 
plication to tailor graphics functions to 
specific needs. For example, it’s relatively 
simple for a checkers-playing program to 
write a function drawpiece (ij) to draw a 
checkers piece at the (i,j) square on a pre- 
viously drawn checkerboard. 

Like X and Andrew, NeWS allows a sin- 
gle workstation to run many applications 
concurrently. NeWS manages this by creat- 
ing a separate lightweight process for each 
client application to which the server is 
connected. Lightweight processes are quite 





efficient to run, since they all share the 
same address space and require no operat- 
ing system support. The NeWS server itself 
contains all the lightweight processes, and 
hundreds of them can run concurrently 
w^ithout hurting server performance. 

News is probably the most advanced 
of the three window systems discussed 
here. But it’s also the only proprietary one, 
which is likely to make it more expensive 
than either X or Andrew 

The Future of Window Systems 

One of the strengths of windowing 
systems is that they allow users who do a 
lot of computing to tap the processing time 
of less heavily used workstations. To do 
this, one needs an operating system that 
makes the network seem transparent-as if 
it were a single computer. LOCUS, built at 
UCLA, is such a system. Since LOCUS is al- 
ready being marketed, it’s probably just a 
matter of time before it becomes available 
for UNIX-based workstations. 

It s not clear whether Apple intends to 
let A/UX and UNIX languish while it allows 
the Mac OS time to develop into a more ad- 
vanced windowing environment. Nor is it 
clear whether Apple’s engineers and man- 
agers believe in sharing resources and pro- 




Tbe three window sy>stems-X (top left), A7idrew 
(top right), a7td NeWS- look very similar to the 
Mac’s. Both X and News use overlapping win- 
dows, tvhile the Andrew windows are tiled. 



cessing power across networks. The issue 
has brought harsh reaction from many, 
who’ve said, in effect, “I don’t want some- 
one using the unused CPU cycles on my 
workstation.” However, such statements 
probably reflect an era that has, albeit qui- 
etly, already passed. Clearly the Mac II, 
with only the Mac OS, does provide a cost- 
effective solution for many w'orkstation 
needs. That may itself become the future 
of workstation windowing. □ 



Macworld 



141 






No Problem. 







and how 



H ere in the pristine 
village of 
MarloW; NH 
(pop. 549) we just don^t 
get to see a whole lot of 
anger, envy, gluttony, 
greed, lust, pride, or 
sloth. But we do have a 
lot of experience with 
the seven (or more) 

errors- 
to absolve your- 
self thereof. If you ever 
have a question about 
something 
you bought 
from us, wal 
everything we 
can to get you and 
your Mac back on 
the straight and 
narrow. 

Speaking 
travelling the 
straight and narrow, there’s 
no safer way to take your 
Mac SE on the road than 
with the Macinware SE 
Bag from I/O Design, Inc. 



I/O Design, Inc. 
Macinwarc SE Bag $79 



It has padded pockets for your 
mouse, cords, and keyboard 
as well as a special 
compartment for a 
disk drive, modem, 
or accessories. Solid 
constmction and ser- 
ious padding through- 
out. Available in navy 
blue or plat- 

^inumgrey. ^cv-- 
Or you can 
fstay home and 
let your Mac go 
p:alling with 
licfoPhone from 
software Ventures. 

^119 



With this highly-rated 
communications program 
you can easily create single 
commands for complex 
sequences (e.g.: log on, 
check mail, print and save 
messages, log off-all in 
one stroke). And even 
direct the program to do 
the sequence at regular 
intervals. 

The virtuous user always 
backs up files. Network DiskFit 
from SuperMac Software will 
;ave your entire group from 
falling from grace by auto- 
matically backing up (onto 
floppies, cartridges, or 
tape) both server and user 
hard drives. It’s fast and 
efficient-only changed 
files are recorded during 
each new backup session. 
Salvation from disk 
swapping is yours 
with the 
MacBottom 
SCSI 21 Meg 
Hard Disk Drive 

PCPCMi^BWTomSCSI 
21 Meg Hard Disk Drive $769 






from Personal Computer 
Peripherals. It comes fully for- 
matted and ready to roll, with 
software utilities including a 
print spooler, disk duplicator, 
and lost file locator. Plus, at only 
5 pounds, you 
^can easily 
^^take it 
wherever 
PPyour com- 
puter takes you 
One of ^ 
s\69 the most in- 
novative (and 

good looking) products of the ^ 
year is MigenPs 1200 baud fj 
Pocket Modem. Now, when | 
you travel, and know you^ll have ■ 
access to a computer, you can 
guarantee you^U have access to a 
^■1^100% Hayes compatible 
' 4^^^^^^modem. It works 
on a 9 V battery 
or AC power 
H^^^^Hvand has a serial 
port to connect 

[^t\|j^^Pwith virtually any 

type of micro. 

If you spend too 

^■Pmnch time trying to 

remember me rolder 
° , , 

names and then trying to 

find them, try HFS Navigator 

from THINK Technologies, Inc. 



It installs in the system file and shape tools, and “LaserBits/^ 
keeps track of frequently used ^fcB|>^^^which lets you 
files. Plus, it helps you search ^HMl^^^^Himagnify and 
for buried files/folaers with ^^F^^^^^9B|lvork on dots 
just a partial name, and facili-^^^^^^ 300 dpi 

tates renaming and deleting.^||j|B|^^|^pKesol^ You 
You can get that abacus, ' even print 

slide rule, and fancy ^^^Hnn color on the 

scientific calculator off ^^MSfe^^Hpniage Writer II. 

your desk if you have ^*^«^er^^^^B(PFileMaker Plus 
MathView rrom BrainPower. from Forethought makes 

IPs a heavy-duty it easy to enter your data how- 
mll^^^H^numerical analysis ever you like, and print it 
^^^^M^ackage that can however you need, TherPs ever 
^H^^H^solve the most a whole disk full of typical 
|B^^HHA^xtravagant prob- formats, if you don^t want to 
gHH^^A^ems including design your own. Calculations, 

^|9^^^^A%ystems of reports, and sorts are a breeze. 
^aH^J^^|(Plinear and You can view multiple records 
non-linear screen, combine info from 

equations, different files, even include 

ODEs, PDEs, graphics in your reports, 

optimizations, numerical So, if you^re looking for 

integrations, and many others. Mac products at sinfully low 
Sophisticated 2D and 3D prices, combined with the sup- 

function plotting, too! port and service thaPs certainly 

SuperPaint from Silicon down to earth, if not heavenly. 

Beach Software takes call our free-from-toll 

the Mac several light M number. Looking for a 

years past MacPaint. , specific product? Check 

Its vastly-expanded . . Jour complete list, or just 

features include _ Jask one of our sales consn 

multiple wind- , /Jtants. We dofr t always hav 

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scrolling new new ones arrive every da 



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SOFTWARE 






NCP denotes not copy-protected. 
CP denotes copy-protected. 



Aegis Development ... NCP 

Doug Clapp’s Word Tools $42. 

Affinity Microsystems ... NCP 

Tempo (power user's macro utility) 55. 

Allan Bonadio Associates ... NCP 

Expressionist feguaf/on processor^ 52. 

ALSoft ... NCP 

DiskExpress (maximize disk performance) 27. 

Altsys ... NCP 

FONTastic Plus (advanced font editor) 49. 

Foniogiapher (LaserWriter font editor) . . . 245. 

Ann Arbor ... NCP 

FullPaint (advanced Paint program) 53 . 

Batteries Included ... NCP 

Thunder! 1.1 (spelling checker) 32. 

Berkeley System Design ... NCP 

Stepping Out (requires 512k) 55. 

Blyth ... NCP 

Omnis 3 Plus (multi-user available) call 

Bogas Productions ... NCP 

Studio Session (music creation) 59. 

Borland International ... NCP 

Turbo Pascal Tutor 49. 

Sidekick 2.0 f/nc/udes MacP/ar?; 59. 

Reflex (while supplies last) 59. 

Turbo Pascal (HFS compatible) 59. 

PeWex Plus (info management tool) 169. 

BPI Systems ... NCP 

General Accounting (full-featured) 129. 

Brainpower ... NCP 

S\a[V\ew (statistics package) 35. 

Graphidex (DA graphics organizer) 69. 

Deslgnscope (electronic circuit design ) . . 129. 

Math View (numerical analysis) 149. 

StatView512+ (req. external drive, 512k ). . . 179. 
Bravo Technologies ... NCP 

MacCalc (easy to use spreadsheet) 79. 

Broderbund ... CP 

Print Shop (create cards and memos) 39. 

Geometry (over 350 problems!) 64 . 

V\deoworksll(animationtool) 119. 

CAMDE ... NCP 

Nutricalc Plus (dietician's delight) 175. 

CasadyWare ... NCP 

Fluent Fonts (two-disk set) 29. 

Fluent Laser Fonts (Vb/s. 1-15) each 48. 

CE Software ... NCP 

Calendar Maker (create custom calendars) 27 . 

Disktop 3.0 (powerful DA Finder) 35. 

Central Point Software ... NCP 

Copy II Mac (includes MacTools) 20. 

Centram Systems West ... CP 

TOPS (file-server/LAN software) 125. 

Challenger Software ... NCP 

Mac3D (3D graphics, CAD features) 129. 

Chang Labs ... NCP 

Rags to Riches Ledger or Payables 125. 

Rags to Riches Receivables (req. 512k ) ... 125. 

Rags to Riches Three Pak 299. 

The C.A.T. (bonfacfs, activities, time) 199. 

Inventory Control or Professional Billing . . . 243. 
Cortland ... CP 

TopDesk 2.3 (7 new desk accessories) .... 34. 

Cricket Software ... NCP 

Statworks (statistical package) 75. 



MacConnection 
Software Special 

through November 30, 1987 

FORETHOUGHT ... NCP 

This month, we are pleased to offer the full 
line of quality products from Forethought, 
one of the software leaders in the Macintosh 
market, and at tremendous savings, tool 

Factfinder 1 .1 Easy to learn and use. An 
information organizer that allows free-form 
entry of data $39. 

FileMaker 1 .0 Create a variety of custom- 
designed forms and reports that include text 
and graphics. Organize customer files, 
inventory and personnel records 49. 

FileMaker Plus 2.0 Powerful database 
capabilities and flexible forms management. 
Provides summary reports, calculations and 
sorting. Includes tem^ates for Rolodex 
cards, mailing lists, sales forms, etc. . . . 139. 

PowerPoint 1 .0 Compose and manage 
materials for business and group presen- 
tations. Design and arrange 35mm slides. 



flipcharts, hand-outs and overhead 
transparencies 189. 



Cricket Graph (multiple windows) 125. 

Cricket Draw (advanced draw capabilities) 175. 

Data Tailor ... NCP 

Trapeze (spreadsheet, reqs. 512k) 159. 

DataViz ... NCP 

NlacUnk Plus (transfer Mac/IBM data) ... 159. 

Digital, etc. ... NCP 

Turbo Maccountant fGL,APAR,P&yro//; .. 259. 
Dove Computer ... NCP 

RAMSnap fRAM D/sk/D/sk CacheJ 35. 

Dubl-Click Software ... NCP 

Calculator Construction Set 39. 

World-Class Fonts! (both volumes) 49. 

WetPaint Clip Art fbof/7 vo/umes) 49. 

Electronic Arts ... CP 

Deluxe Music Construction Set 2.0 63. 

Enabling Technologies ... NCP 

Easy3D (create solid 3D objects) 89. 

Pro 3D (3D shaded modeling) 199. 

Enzan-Hoshiguml USA ... NCP 

Japanese Clip Art Scroll 1 “Heaven" 65. 

Japanese Clip Art Scroll 2 “Earth" 65. 

MacCalligraphy (create unique designs). . 119. 
Firebird Licensees ... NCP 

Laser Author (word processor) 105. 

1st Byte ... CP 

MAD LIBS (20 “talking" stories) 14. 

Speller Bee or First Shapes 32. 

KidTalk or Mathtalk 32. 

SmoothTalker (speech synthesis) 32. 

Forethought ... NCP 

Factfinder special 

FileMaker special 

FileMaker Plus special 

PowerPoint special 

Foundation Publishing ... NCP 

Comic People (create your own characters) 26. 

Comic Strip Factory (create cartoons) . . . 59. 



FWB Software ... NCP 

Hard Disk Backup or Hard Disk Partition $38. 



Hard Disk LItil (program backup) 56. 

Great Wave Software ... NCP 

KidsTime (educational, ages 3-8) 28. 

TimeMasters (learn about time, ages 4 + j 28. 

ConcertWare + (mus/c compos///onj 39. 

ConcertWare -I- MIDI 85. 

Greene, Inc. ... NCP 

QuickDEX facfdress book; 24. 

Hayden Software ... CP 

MusicWorkefsongs/bryoL/rMac; 29. 

Score Improvement for the SAT 59. 

ideaform ... NCP 

MacLabeler or DiskQuick 29. 

Imagine ... NCP 

Smart Alarms rem/nafe/'sysfem; 38. 

Multi-user Smart Alarms 109. 

Industrial Computations ... NCP 

Powermath (equation solving tool) 59. 

Infosphere ... CP 

LaserServe (network software) 65. 

ComServe (NCP, modem sharer) 129. 

MacServe (network software) 165. 

Innovative Data Design ... NCP 

MacDraft 1 .2A (requires 512k) A59. 

Kensington ... NCP 

Type Fonts for Headlines (req. 512k) 41 . 

LaserWare ... CP 

laserWorks (requires 512k, LaserWriter). . 199. 
LaserPaint (requires Mac Plus) 319. 

Layered ... CP 

Notes for... Excel, Microsoft Works, 

PageMaker, or Word each 42. 

Legisoft/Nolo Press ... NCP 

WillWriter 2.0 ('prepare yoL/r own w///; 31. 

Linguist’s Software ... NCP 

Tech (1000 different symbols) 59 . 

Foreign Language Fonts call 

Living Videotext ... NCP 

More (outlines, windows, & tree charts) . . 149. 

Lundeen & Associates ... NCP 

WorksPlus Spell 39. 

MacroPac International ... NCP 

101 Macros for Excel 49. 

Magnum ... CP 

The Slide Show Magician 1.3 35. 

Micro Analyst ... NCP 



Mac Zap ('recover crashed bard d/sks) . ... 36. 

Microsoft ... NCP 

Fligfit Simulator (the Mac takes flight, CP) 32. 



Basic Interpreter 3.0 64. 

Chart 1 .02 (42 chart styles, CP) 72. 

Multiplan 1.1 (63 col. by 255 rows, CP ) ... 111. 

File 1 .05 (flexible data manager) 111. 

Basic Compiler 1 .0 119. 

Fortran 2.2 (comp//er; 169. 

Works 1 .0 (integrated toot) 189. 

Excel 1.04 ('power spreadsbeef) 224. 

Word 3 .01 (word processor) 239 . 

Miles Computing ... NCP 

Mac the Ripper Vol. 3 (req. Paint program) . 27. 

Orchestra ol Fonts Vol. 4 (30 different fonts) 27. 

Peoples, Places & Things Vol. 5 27. 

Mindscape ... NCP 

The Perfect Score: SAT (CP) 47. 

ComIcWorks (create your owr?com/cs;. ... 48. 
GraphicWorks 1.1 (newsletters) 48. 

Monogram ... NCP 

Dollars & Sense (home, small business ) ... 81 . 



SQftVSfeu; 



V/UL a 

W 



Out on a limb. 

''e don't want to offend 
' anyone, but people 
who still use hard copy 
are seriously out of date. Just 
take a look at the artistic strokes 
of genius on our temporarily tat- 
tooed friend. Why, for the right 
price, you could present your 
next newsletter, spreadsheet, or 
epic poem in real living color. 

Picture your 
logo rippling 
across some- 
one's exotic 
exterior. 
Amaze your 
boss as the 
gentle undula- 
tions of breath 
do things to 
your five-year plan that you 
never imagined possible. Why, 
even editing could be fun again! 




Fleshtop publishing. 

David Chalk and his partner 
Roy Zuckerman at Temptu 
Marketing in New York are 
designing tattoos on their Mac 




which are turning traditional 
marketing literally inside out. 

It all started when Roy saw 
what his father, one of the 
world's leading cosmetics 
chemists, had developed for the 
movie “1attoo"-a safer and 
longer-lasting body paint than 
anything previously available. 
He and David were soon selling 



the paint in kits along with 
design transfers which can be 
applied in seconds with good 
old rubbing alcohol. 

They've done custom work 
for everyone from Miami Vice 
to Guinness Stout. And, for 
quick designs, the Mac is 
starting to come in handy (and 
footy, and everywhere in 
between). Temptu can now 
digitize very custom images for 
transfer to very custom parts. 

According to our winners, 
temporary tattooing is “the 
contact sport of the 80's." So it's 
only natural that they've chosen 
the micro of the 80's to help 
with their design and marketing. 
Oh, Lydia, could you have had 
fun with this one. Eh, Groucho? 



=□= Contest Winner 



Name: David Chalk, 

Temptu Marketing 

System; Mac Plus 

Applications: Designs 
custom temporary tattoos; 
tracks clients and orders; 
produces mailing pieces 
and catalogs. 




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V 




Primera Software ... CP 

Smash Hit Racquetball (top-rated!) $15. 

Psion ... CP 

Psion Chess (3D and multi-lingual) 31 . 

Sierra On-Line ... CP 

King’s Quest or King’s Quest II 30. 

Space Quest 30. 

Silicon Beach Software 

Airborne! (CP, the classic!) 20. 

Enchanted Scepters (CP, over 200 scenes) 21 . 

Dark Castle (NCR arcade action) 28. 

World Builder (NCR program creator) 41 . 

Simon & Schuster ... CP 

Star Trek— The Kobayashi Adventure 24. 

Sir-Tech ... CP 

Mac Wizardry (high-rated fantasy) 35. 

SPHERE, Inc. ... NCP 

Tellstar II (No. & So. hemispheres, req. 512k) 15. 

GATO or Orbiter 26. 

XOR ... NCP 

NFL Challenge (be the coach!) 69. 



HARDWARE 

Manufacturer’s minimum limited warranty 
period is listed after each company name. 
Some products in their line may have longer 
warranty periods. 

NQTE: Some hardware items are available In 
either platinum or beige color. Please specify. 



20 Megabyte SCSI Hard Drive 569. 

Apricorn ... 1 year 

ApriCord Mac (for Mac 512k or Mac Plus) 75. 
AST Research ... 6 months 

AST TurboScan (300 dp/ scanr7erj 1395. 

AST 2000 (20 Meg. 20 /Wegfape; 1395. 

AST 4000 (74 Meg, 60 Meg tape) 3695. 

Curtis Manufacturing ... lifetime 

Diamond (6 oi/f/efsj 29. 

Emerald (6 outlets; 6 ft cord) 36. 

Sapphire (3 outlets: EMI/RFI filtered) 47. 

Ruby (6 outlets: EMI/RFI filtered; 6 ft cord) 55 . 
Dove Computer ... 90 days 
High quality memory upgrades. 

MacSnap 524 (512k to 1 Meg) 139. 

MacSnap 548 (512k to 2 Meg) 369. 

MacSnap 2S (1 Meg to 2.5 Meg) 649. 

MacSnap 4S (1 Meg to 4 Meg) 1299. 

Ergotron ... 1 year 

Mouse Cleaner 360° 15. 

MacTllt or MacTilt SE 74. 

MacTilt (/or /arge mon/fod 95. 

MacBuffer512k 329. 

MacBuffer 1024k 429. 

Faralion Computing ... 1 year 

PhoneNET PLUS (D8-9 or D//\/-8; 39. 

Hayes ... 2 years 

Smartcom II (co/T7rnun/ca//onsso//wareJ .. 88. 

Smartmodem 1200 299. 

Smartmodem 2400 449. 

IOMEGA ... lyear 

Bernoulli Box (dua/ 20 Megw/SCSI) . . . 1879. 

Kensington ... 1 year 

Appletalk Cable Clips or Connectors. . eachl. 

Mouseway (mouse tracking pad) 8. 

Mouse Pocket (for your idle mouse) 8. 

Mac Plus/Mac SE System Saver Cover .... 9. 
Imagewriter II Dust Cover 9. 



MacConnection 
Hardware Special 

through November 30, 1987 

PERSONAL COMPUTER PERIPHERALS 

The PCPC MacBottom drives are proven 
winners for quality, speed and reliability. And 
now your cost Is even lower! All drive units 
come complete with cables, documentation, 
Imagewriter and LaserWriter print spooling, 
HFS Backup, and locator software. Additional 
features include: 

• All new 2-year warranty 

• Quiet & lightweight, fits under Mac 

• Optional built-in 1200 bps modem 
available for each drive 



MacBottom HD 21 Meg SCSI $749. 

MacBottom HD 32 Meg SCSI 959. 

MacBottom HD 45 Meg SCSI 1199. 



Mouse Cleaning Kit w/Mouse Pocket 17. 

Disk Case (holds 36 Mac disks) 19. 

Disk Drive Cleaning Kit 20. 

Tilt/Swivel 22. 

Universal Copy Stand 24. 

Polarizing Filter (Mac Plus or Mac SE) .... 34. 

Surge Suppressor 34. 

Printer Muffler (80 column) 39. 

Printer Muffler (132 column) 52. 

Control Center 64. 

System Saver Mac 64. 

A-B Box (for the Mac Plus) 64. 

Turbo Mouse (/or //?e MacP/us & SEJ 85. 

Koala Technologies ... 90 days 
MacVision (digitizer, includes MoreVision) 175. 
Kraft ... 1 year 

3 Button QuickStick 39. 

Migent ... 1 year 

Pocket Modem (exf. 300/1200 baud) .... 169. 
Mirror Technologies ... lyear 

Magnum 800 External Drive 209. 

Magnum Tape 20 Backup call 

Magnum Tape 40 Backup call 

MagNet 40/40 (40 Meg, 40 Meg tape). . . . call 
MagNet30x(w/cab/e&pr/mspoo/ersJ . . . call 
MagHei A0y.(v//cable & print spoolers) ... call 
Nutmeg Systems ... 1 year 

Nutmeg FPD 15" Monitor 1495. 

Nutmeg 19" Monitor 1579. 

Nuvotech ... 1 year 

EasyHei (AppleTalk netv^ork connector) . . . 29. 
Personal Computer Peripherals ... 2 years 
Optional built-in 1200 bps modems available. 

MacBottom HD 21 Meg (SCSI) special 

MacBottom HD 32 Meg (SCSI) special 

MacBottom HD 45 Meg (SCS/j special 

SoftStyle ... 90 days 

MacEnhancer (/or p/o/ters to pr/nfers| ... 179. 

Summagraphics ... 90 days 

MacTablet12"x12" 379. 

Systems Control ... 2 years 

MacGard (surge protection) 55. 

Thunderware ... 90 days 

ThunderScan 4.0 with PowerPort 199. 

Western Automation ... lyear 

DASCH RAMdisk 2000k 399. 



DISKS 



Sony 3V2" DS/DD Disks (box of 10) $19. 

MAXELL 3V2" DS/DD Disks (box of 10)... 20. 

Full 3V2 " DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 20. 

Verbatim 3V2" DS/DD Disks (box of 10)... 20. 
3M3V2" DS/DD Disks (box 0 / to; 21. 

INFORMATION SERVICES 

CompuServe Information Service 24. 



Dow Jones News/Retrieval Membership Kit 24. 

ACCESSORIES 



Clean Image Ribbon Co. 

Clean Image Ribbon Kit 12. 

Computer Coverup 

Imagewriter II Cover 8. 

Mac Plus & Keyboard (/wo covers) 10. 

I/O Design 

Imageware II (/magewn/er// carry case). ... 49. 

Macinware Plus (Mac Plus carry case) 69. 

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Odesta ... NCP 

Double Helix (relational, custom menus) $275. 

Multi-User Helix (requires 512k) 439. 

OWL International ... NCP 

Guide (hypertext, free-form info) 79. 

Guide Envelope System 99. 

Palantir ... CP 

Math Flash. WordPlay or MacType 26. 

InTalk (communication to emulation, NCP ) . 99. 

PBI Software ... NCP 

HFS Locator (DA organizer for HFS) 26. 

HD Backup (supports MFS. HFS) 29. 

Personal Computer Peripherals ... NCP 

HFS Backup 32. 

ProVUE Development ... NCP 
OverVUE 2.0 (power-packed database ) . . 149. 
Rubicon Publishing ... CP 

Dinner At Eight-Silver Palate Bundle 52. 

Satori ... NCP 

BulkMailer 3.0 (mailing lists) 85. 

BulkMailer Plus (up to 90,000 names) . . . 199. 
Legal Billing (attorneys to accountants) . . 385. 

Legal Billing II (full trust accounting) 575. 

Project Billing (architects to engineers ). . . 445. 
Silicon Beach Software ... NCP 

Silicon Press (printer utility, 512k) 41 . 

SuperPaint (advanced graphics program) 79. 

Simon & Schuster ... NCP 

Mac Art Department (req. Paint program) 24. 

Typing Tutor IV (new & improved) 35. 

SoftStyle ... NCP 

Epsiart (Epson printer driver) 27. 

Printworks (print faster & in color) 49. 

Laserstart (Hewlett-Packard LaserJet) 58. 

Software Discoveries 

Record Holder Plus (data manager) 45. 

Software Ventures ... NCP 

Microphone 1.1 (includes Glue^“) 119. 

Solutions, Inc. ... NCP 

SmartScrap & The Clipper 41 . 

Glue ^creates * 'print to disk” capability) ... 41. 

SuperGlue (total graphic integration) 59. 

Springboard ... CP 

Art a la Mac Vol. 1 or 2 (NCP) 

Early Games or Easy as ABC 

Certificate Maker (requires 512k ) . . 

SuperMac Software ... NCP 

SuperSpool 3.4 

Diskfit (backup & restore utility) . . . 

Network Diskfit (automatic back up) 

SuperLaserSpool 

Sentinel (encryption) 

Multi-User SuperLaserSpool . 

Survivor Software ... NCP 
MacMoney (financial planner) 



Symmetry ... NCP 

Acta 2.0 (outline/writing desk accessory) $38. 
PictureBase 1.2 1'cZ/pa/t manage/; 572k^ .. 59. 
Telos Software ... NCP 
Business Filevision (512k, external drive) 199. 
Think Educational ... CP 

MacEdge II or MindOver Mac 28. 

THINK Technologies ... NCP 

HFS Navigator (search for buried files ) .... 39. 

Laserspeed (LaserWriter utility) 59. 

Lightspeed Pascal 85. 

Lightspeed C (top-rated C Compiler) 99. 

InBox Starter Kit (CP) 225. 

InBox Personal Connection (Mac & PC ). . . call 

T/Maker ... NCP 

ClickArt Personal Graphics. Effects. 

Publications. Letters Vol. 1 or 2, Holidays. 

Business Image each 28. 

Bombay. Plymouth, or Seville Laser font ... 46. 

Write Now fword processor; 99. 

TML Systems ... NCP 

TML Source Code Library 58. 

TML Pascal (compiler, req. 512k) 68. 

TrueBasic ... NCP 

True BASIC (fast, flexible, & portable) 59. 

Algebra I or II, Pre-calculus. Trigonometry, 

3D Graphics. Discrete Math, Probability, 
Calculus, Arithmetic, & MacFunction. . each 35. 

TrueSTAT (statistics) 58. 

HunWme (create stand-alone applications) . . 59. 
Unicorn ... CP 

Animal Kingdom (ages 6-12) 27. 

Decimal Dungeon (math, ages 9 and up) . . 27. 
Fraction Action (arcade style math game) . . 27. 

Mac Robots (pre-school program) 27. 

Math Wizard (math games, ages 5-10) 27. 

Read-A-Rama (reading, ages 5-8) 32. 

William & Macias ... NCP 

myDiskLabeler (des/gn & pr/r7f /abe/s; 24. 

my DiskLabeler w/Color (req. Imagewriter II) 33 . 

myDiskLabeler w/LaserWriter option 38. 

Working Software ... NCP 

Fi ndswell (/ocafe documenrs fest; 32. 

Spellswell (spe/Z/ng checker; 42. 

Spellswell Medical Dictionary 59. 

GAMES 

Accolade ... CP 

Hardball (baseball simulation) 24. 

Activision ... CP 

Tass Times in Tonetown 21. 

Championship Star League Baseball 22. 

Shanghai (Mah Jongg strategy) 24. 

Portal Z'sc/-// ooveZ; 30. 



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Addison-Wesley ... CP 

Puppy Love (your dog will love it!) $ 1 9. 

Artworx ... CP 

Bridge 5.0 ^sharpenyoi/rsZc/ZZs; 22. 

Avalon Hill ... CP 

MacPro Football (req. 512k) 30. 

MacPro Football 85 Team or Season 16. 

Blue Chip ... CP 

Millionaire, Tycoon, Baron or Squire 35. 

Broderbund Software ... CP 

Lode Runner fover 750 ZeveZs; 24. 

Ultima III (/anZasy adventure; 24. 

Ancient Art of War (military strategy) 27. 

Maze Wars + (play via modem or network) 32. 

Toy Shop (create working models) 39. 

Bullseye ... CP 

Ferrari Grand Prix (Formula One racing ). . . 34. 

Fokker TriPlane Flight Simulator 34. 

Electronic Arts ... CP 

Ogre (tank simulation) 20. 

Archon (arcade strategy, req. 512k) 27. 

Skyfox (3D graphics) 27. 

Seven Cities of Gold 27. 

One on One/Dr J vs Larry Bird (req. 512k). . 27. 

Patton-vs-Rommel (req. 512k) 27. 

Pinball Construction Set 27. 

Chessmaster 2000 30. 

Epyx ... CP 

Rogue (strategy dungeon classici) 15. 

Sub Battle Simulator 24. 

Winter Games (Olympic events) 24. 

Hayden Software ... CP 

Sargon 1 1 1 levels of chess) 29. 

Infinity Software ... CP 

Go (4000-year-old strategy game) 23. 

Grand Slam (tennis, req. 512k) 27. 

Infocom ... CP 

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 18. 

Leather Goddesses, Trinity, Moonmist, 

Ballyhoo, Bureaucracy. Statlonfall 

Hollywood Hyjinx (standard) each 24. 

Zork Trilogy 45. 

Invisiclues Hint Booklets (please specify ) ... 6. 

Miles Computing ... CP 

Harrier Strike Mission (3D flight simulation) 27. 

Ouintette (strategy of ”Go”) 27. 

Down Hill Racer (3D ski simulation) 27. 

Fool’s Errand (solve the puzzles) 27. 

Mindscape ... NCP 

Balance of Power (world politics) 30. 

King of Chicago (req. minimum 512E) .... 30. 

Shadowgate (castle adventure) 30. 

Uninvited or DejaVu 30. 

PBI Software ... CP 

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Reviews 



Four of a Kind 



HyperDrive FX/40 

SCSI ba rd iUsk. Pros: Includes very* good softu Kire. Cons: Bulky ' case; tech) lical si ippoi't cii mailable 
only from dealers. List price: $1799. Requires: 512KB. 

Jasmine Direct Drive 50 

SCSI hard disk. Pros: Low price; good technical suppoft; includes 9MB of shareu wrt* and public 
domain software; good tnanual. Cons: Units frecjuently back-oidered; weak backup software. List 
price: $1159. Requires: 512KB. 

MacBottom HD45 

SCSI bard disk. Pros: Lightweight, sleek design; (fuiet; automatic headparking. Cons: B.xpettsire; 
hard-tO’ieach on/off switch. List price: $1795; modem $200. Requires: 512KB. 

Rodime 45 Plus 

SCSI hard disk. Pros: High-quality performance; singe pi'otection. Cons: Bulky case: u vak 
manual; minimal technical support. List price: $1595 Requires: 512KB. 



Forties are replacing twenties as 
the standard SCSI hard disk. The 
increase in capacity has not been 
reflected in cost; the list prices compare fa- 
vorably to those of 20MB drives just a \^ar 
ago. All four hard disks evaluated here are 
comparable in speed and performance, dif- 
fering only in bundled software, detailing, 
price, and technical support. All will work 
with a 512KE, a Mac Plus, or an SE, and by 
now, probably with the Mac II (although a 
slightly different formatter is required). For 
testing purposes, the four drives were re- 
formatted, then loaded with identical sys- 
tems and files, and used for several days 
under normal working conditions. 

HyperDrive FX/40 

General Computer s new external 
hard disk has a separate rather than a 
built-in terminator, which makes the drive 
slightly inconvenient to use (except for 
those who plan to daisy-chain more than 
two SCSI devices). It also lacks a light to in- 



dicate when it s on or being accessed. It’s 
packaged in a mod plastic case, but the 
molded handle does not provide an ade- 
quate grip. I ^ilso found this unit to be the 
loudest of the four. 

The software General Computer in- 
cluded with the FX/40 is the best of the lot. 
FX Manager 3.0 lets you change the SCSI 
address, park the heads, test the disk, and 
initialize it. The advanced backup utility al- 
lows you to back up to other hard disks as 



well as to floppies. The software package 
also includes a password utility and print 
spoolers for the ImageWriier and the 
Laser-Writer. Althougli the two manuals 
(one for disk use and installation, the other 
for the software) are thin, they are well 
indexed and adequate. 

General Computer has attempted to 
shift responsibility for technical support to 
the dealers. Unfortunately, not all dealers 
return phone calls. 1 fared little better with 
the factory number intended only for deal- 
ers. I had to w'ait over 24 hours for a re- 
sponse, but the person who called back 
was knowledgeable and attentive. 

Jasmine Direct Drive 50 

Since you buy Jasmine hard disks di- 
rect from tine factory, they’re among the 
least exp>ensive. Each comes with a 30-day 
money-back guarantee, but expect about a 
two-w^ek delay. 

The Direct Drive 50 comes in either 
beige or platinum. With its low profile, it 
fits nicely under the Mac but can just as 
easily be operated on its side. The paper 
air filter is visible through the ventilation 
slots on the front, a good example of Jas- 
mine’s attention to detail. 

A switch on the back changes the SCSI 
address. A surge suppressor and an exter- 
nally accessible fuse protect the drive and 
its two 110-volt receptacles. Although 

This standard 
benchmark measi ires 
the time it takes to 
read to and urite from 
the disk 100 times with 
a 24K file. All four 
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there's no indicator light on tlie front, the 
drive makes a sound when it's being ac- 
cessed, reassuring the user it’s busy: Shut- 
ting off the drive automatically parks 
the heads. 

The intelligently written manual is the 
best I’ve seen for any hard disk; it includes 
information usually glos.sed over or 
skipped entirely; such as a technical dis- 
cussion of disk speed related to interleave 
factor. A large section on file recovery is 
supported by extensive software on 
the disk. 

Of the four companies, this was the 
only one I could get through to for techni- 
cal support on the first try. ja.smine al.so 
maintains its own bulletin board .service. 
You can ii.se it to leave questions or down- 
load the latest software, including a SCSI 
addre.ss checker, a Ibrmatier, and a mount- 
er for tho.se annoying occasions when the 
drive does not mount it.self. There is even a 
program, to be u.sed with caution, that can 
initialize the drive without erasing any of 
your data. However, you may wish to buy a 
le.ss pedestrian backup. 

As an extra bonus, the company loads 
its drives with 10MB of shareware and 
public domain programs for te.sting pur- 
poses and leaves it on the drive when it’s 
shipped-a real treat for anyone who likes 
to try out new software. 



MacBottom HD45 

Personal Computer Peripherals Cor- 
poration makes no attempt to compete on 
price, aiming instead at the c|uality end of 
the market. The MacBottom is the smallest, 
lightest, and quietest of the drives consid- 
ered here; yet it holds a 1200-baud optional 
modem. 

At $200, the modem is not inexpen- 
sive. It's equipped with Hayes-compatible 
commands, four dip switches, and a yo\- 
ume control. Its only unu.sual feature is its 
inclusion in the drive, wiiich gives you one 
le.ss piece of equipment to transport. The 
unit automatically parks the heads when 
it’s shut down, another convenience for 
the traveler. 

The MacBottt)m has a light on the 
front that shows disk acce.ss, and all its ca- 
bles are permanently attached. 'Fhe ex- 



ternal 25-pin SCSI connector tor daisy- 
chaining is the same as the .Mac’s. On the 
bottom of the ca.se is the SCSI address .se- 
lector, wiiich can be changed with a few' 
clicks of a pencil point. My only complaint 
is that the oiVoff sw'itch, hidden on the 
back behind the power cord, is practically 
inacce.ssible. Since the manual has no in- 
.siructions on removing the internal termi- 
nator for daisy-chaining three or more 
MacBottoms, you’ll probably have to 
call the technical .support number for 
a.ssistance. 

The .software includes an e.xcellent 
HPS backup program (al.so available .sep- 
arately), an ImageWriter spooler, a La.ser- 
Writer spooler, a floppy copy accessory, and 
a DA file finder, but no hard disk manager, 
i'he manual instructs you to era.se the disk 
with the lander menu choice when you 
need to reformat the disk, lair tho.se w'ho 
are on a le.ss-restricted budget, this drive is 
difficult to beat. 

Rod i me 45 Plus 

The Scottish company Rodime makes 
the Winchester drives installed in many of 
the hard disks on the market, including 
.some Aj^ple dri\'es. Therefore, I was sur- 
pri.sed that Rodime s ow n release for the 
retail market is not more unu.sual. This un- 
der-the-.VIac drive is good, but not special. 

Although these usa^e- 
test results don 't match 
the benchmarks, the 
variations between the 
four drives are so 
sb\i*ht they'd go unno- 
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I found its bulky case, with the fan attached 
to the back, made the drive seem rather 
intrusive. 

The 45 Plus has an internal terminator 
and an external SCSI addre.ss switch that’s 
adequate but requires a miniature .screw- 
driver to .set. There is a small light on the 
front of the case, but it s hard to .see. 

The Rodime manuals are just ade- 
quate and do not compare well with the 
others provided here. There is no mention 
of technical support beyond “see your 
dealer,” and the manual doesn’t even 
li.st a company phone number. 

I used all four drives for several days 
within my normal work routine, and each 
performed flawlessly, with no perceptible 
differences in speed or ease of use. If 
forced to make a choice, I would take the 
MacBottom; but if price is an issue, the 
Jasmine would be hard to beat.-.Sco// 
Beamer 

See Where to Buy for product details. 

Gateway to the 
Future 




Net way NIOOOA 

MaC‘to-mainframe communications 
server. Pros: Quick and easy histallation: 
uvll-uritten, accessible documentation. Cons: 
Terminal-emulation software could use more 
comprehensive macro ftntctions. List price: 
$M95. Requires: 512K, AppleTalk network. 
Copy protection: None. 



If youYe an MIS manager looking 
for common ground between 
3270 IBM mainframes and Macin- 
tosh AppleTalk u.sers, Netway NIOOOA from 
Tri-Data may be the answer. It can have 
your Macs effortlessly talking to the com- 
pany computer in a matter of minutes. The 
NIOOOA can accommodate everyoiie (rom 
graphic arti.sts downloading data for chans 
to senior executives accessing Ii-mail from 
the mainframe. 

Replacing the huge IBM 3274 cluster 
controller, the compact Neiway box pro- 
vides a gateway to the IBM mainframe, 
along with 3278-2 terminal emulation on 
the Mac. (See “Mini and .Mainframe Con- 
nections,” Macivorlcl,]u\\ 1986, for a more 
detailed explanation of the Mac-io-main- 
frame environment.) The Netwav's cost is 
half the $7000 to $10,000 price of a 3274 



cluster controller, with one-tenth the instal- 
lation hassles. And you can throw away all 
those clumsy coaxial cables! 

Service for 16 

The Net way NIOOOA consists of a net- 
work communications server (with a serial 
I/O port that supports baud rates of up to 
9600) and terminal emulation .software that 
can be placed on an AppleTalk network. As 
many as 16 Macintosh users can connect to 
the mainframe while still using the Mac in- 
terface to access data. The package al.so in- 
cludes an AppleTalk port, an Nl^d option 
module for line-conditkMi selection, a mo- 
dem cable, and an optional active-modem- 
eliminator direct-connect cable. Ibr more 
complex downloads, you can get Mac- 
Maittfrcntie, an optional file-transfer pack- 
age ($995, including network licen.se). 

Preparing to Serve 

Getting the Netway NIOOOA up and 
running shouldn’t require more than a few 
minuie.s work. Just connect the cables and 
modem and configure the server with the 
SNA protocols. If nece.ssary, you can refer 
to a clearly written manual that works as 



well for the novice as for the experienced 
MIS staffer. Once the .server is configured, 
individual Macs can be set up to talk to the 
mainframe through the Netway (see “Mac 
to Net way”). A copy of the Presentation 
Services file.s showing the host and u.ser 
names must be put on each user's disk. You 
can specify up to six macro-key a.ssign- 
ments to automate such functions as lt3g- 
ging on and off the system or .sending your 
pa.ssword and account number. Although 
.some 3278 keyboard-mapping capabilities 
are provided, more extensive keyboard 
customizing would be nice. 

With your Mac ready to emulate an 
IBM 3278-2 terminal, you’re now prepared 
to c(3mmunicate with the mainframe. At 
this point, you can run the macro .strings 
defined in your configuration hie to sim- 
plify logging on. The only weak links here 
are the limitations of the macros. Six mac- 
n)-key a.ssignments are not quite sufficient, 
given the number of commands you may 
regularly .send to the mainframe. The pro- 
gram won't let you chain macros together 
to be .sent in a batch; in.stead, you mu.si .se- 
lect and execute each one indi\ idually. 

Overall though, once you’re online 
the Net way software works well. \bu can 
either .stick with the terminal-emulation 




150 November 1987 



features and merely access mainframe ser- 
vices like H-Mail ( II^M PROFS, for example) 
or cut and paste data from the mainframe 
for use in a Mac application. Since the ter- 
minal-emulation software also supports 
Switcher, you can easily toggle between 
the host and applications running locally 
on your Macintosh. (At pre.ss time, Tri-Data 
had not been able to test it extensively with 
MultiFinder but expects to do so in the 
near future. ) 

The Net way's overall performance is 
equal to that of the Ib.M 3274 cluster con- 
troller, and it is faster and easier to use than 
other Macintosh terminal-emulation soft- 
ware (such i\s M(tcTen)ti)ial). But perhaps 
the Net way's greate.st advantage is that it 
lets you transform your data-proce.ssi ng en- 
vironment from a centralized system de- 
pendent on a mainframe to a decentralized 
network of independent .Macs. The Netway, 
in effect, turns your mainframe into a giant 
file server from which any Mac can down- 
load information for local processing 
quickly and easily, without ever leaving the 
friendly Mac interface. Accounting data can 
be dow nloaded and processed in an Excel 
spreadsheet, for example. You can also 
look forward to replacing those bulky IBM 
dumb terminals (and their aw'kward coax- 
ial cables) with Macs. 

The .NIOOOA is a vast improvement 
over previous attempts to remove one of 
the last obstacles to integrating Macs into 
the corporate environment: IB.M main- 
frame connectivity. The Netway so artfully 
bridges the Mac-to-mainframe gap that 
you'll wonder how you ever got along 
without \i-Ken Smith 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



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High Performaace 

Radius Accelerator SE 

68020/68881 accelerator board forSE. 

Pros: loir base price, performs as well as Mac II. 
Cons: If yon need more than /MB of memory, 
the resulting price/performance ratio is hig/:>er 
than competitors. List price: $99^ for accelera- 
tor board: $400 for 6888/ numeric coprocessor. 
Reifuires: SI:. 




The onl\^ w'ay to improve the per- 
formance of your SE is to upgrade 
its proces.sor. Four developers- 
Levco, Peak, General Computer, and Ra- 
dius-offer MC68020/68881 accelerator 
boards to accomplish this. Levco and Peak 
supplement this combination with an 
MC68851 paged memory management unit 
(PMMU), while General Computer and Ra- 
dius do not. (For a discussion of other 
boards, see “Beehng Up the SE,” Mac- 
ivorlcl, September 1987.) 

The Radius Accelerator for the SE is a 
$995 replacement CPU board that plugs 
into the expansion slot and uses an on- 
board 32-kilobyte cache to speed up ac- 
cess to memory on the system board. You 
may fill the fltxuing-point coprocessor 
socket with a 68881 for an additional $395, 
or allegedly with a 68882 (when it be- 
comes available) for even higher-speed 
math functions. 

Running a 68020 as the CPU in a com- 
puter designed to run a 68000 at half the 
clock rate requires some changes in the 
storage architecture. To supply the 68020 
with in.structions and data as fast as it 
needs them, the accelerator board s mem- 
ory must be twice as fast as the SE s. Also, 
because the 68020 can read 4 bytes at a 
time, the add-cMi board’s memory should 
be accessible 32 bits at a time, rather than 
the SE's normal 16 at a time. If the memory 
system is fast enough, a Mac with a 68020 
running at double the SE's clock speed 
would operate at four times the speed of 
the SE's 68000. 

In addition, applications using real 
arithmetic (and e.specially math functions) 
run from 10 to 100 times faster than a regu- 
lar SE if you install the optional 68881 and 
compile code to u.se it. Even applications 



that use Apple SANE w ill be automatically 
routed to the 68881. Radius ROM routines 
are smart enough to use the 68881 when it 
is present. 

Instead of providing 1 to 4 megabytes 
of faster, 32-bits-wide main memory (as 
most add-on board makers do), Radius 
uses the system board s existing memory 
and incorporates a small amount of faster 
static RAM that can keep pace with the 
faster and wider acce.s.ses rec|uired by the 
CPU This write-through caching scheme 
can be used to speed access to either appli- 
cation code or data or both. Or on ma- 
chine start-up, you can disable the ac- 
celerator board and run your SE in its 
original form. 

The Macintosh II in.serts two wait 
states each time the CPU fetches an instruc- 
tion or data from memory. An SE with a 
68020 CPU accelerator running at almost 16 
MUz, that can access memory with fewer 
than two w<ait states, has the potential to 
run faster than a Mac II. 

Most of our tests found that the perfor- 
mance of the Radius Accelerator is nearly 
as good as a Mac II for most applications. 
PageMaker, Word, and Excel perform at 
least two times faster than on an un- 
enhanced SE. 

Cache Me If You Can 

The 68020 can store 256 bytes of in- 
structions in its cache and execute these 
instructions quickly. This can help prevent 
some of the w^aiting for memory fetches on 
a system bus. The advantage is realized 
when tiny loops in programs can lit entire- 
ly in the cache, so that after the first pass 
through the loop, the 68020 doesn't have to 
fetch instructions from memory. The 68020 
can then run applications containing many 
small loops faster than if every in.struction 
were fetched from memory. 

Often if the main memory is slower 
than the CPU, a cache can help reduce the 
effects of wait states. On the other hand, 
programs that branch extensively can de- 
feat the cache by making diverse program 
and/or data references, rec|uiring the cache 
to be frequently flushed and refilled. This 
condition is called thrashing. The perfor- 
mance of a cache memory architecture 
therefore varies widely among different ap- 
plications. On average, the Radius board is 
about 15 percent slower than some cnher, 
costlier boards ( like the Prodigy SE or the 
1 lyperCharger), wiiich contain full replace- 
ment memory. 



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Reviews 



Compatibility 

Not all manufacturers wrote their 
original Mac applications so that they’d run 
flawlessly and efliciently on 68020-based 
Macs. For example, applications like Supcr- 
LaserSpooI and U^hf speed Pascal have a 
tendency to crash on the Radius board 
(and on the Mac II). (That problem should 
be short-lived, since manufacturers are 
rushing to fix such incompatibilities. ) You 
can currently run those applications on the 
Radius board in 68000 emulation mode. 
Other applications have problems on 
Radius when the instruction cache is 
turned on. 

Extendability 

The Radius board provides a bus ex- 
tension connector to which you can attach 
the Radius Full Page Display for higher- 
resolution large-screen graphics. Unfortu- 
nately, you cannot hook up any other large- 
screen monitor to an SE ecjuippcxl with the 
Radius accelerator board, ^bu can expand 
the memory up to 4Mb with IMH SIMM 
modules, but IMb chips are very expen- 
sive. You add memory expansion boards to 
the system board, as you would do with a 
stock SE. 

System Performance Benchmarks 

Benchmarks are deceptive. We ran 
standard benchmarks like the W'hetstone, 
the Dhrystone, and the Sieve of Eratosthe- 
nes-which may not tell the whole story. To 
add to the confusion, the same benchmark 
compiled in different versions of C showed 
a 50 percent variation in performance. In 
addition, we wrote a C program ourselves 



to test the accelerator board. The I lenon 
progi*am tests the overall accelerated SE 
system performance and is large enough to 
exceed the capacity of the cache. Unlike 
some simple numerical benchmarks, it al.so 
makes a large number of QuickDraw calls 
to draw graphics on the .screen. The pro- 
gram was compiled like other benchmarks 
with a 68020/68881 version of Cousulair 
MacC. In tiddition, we also carried out real- 
life tests, like measuring the time to open 
an application, quit an application, and 
scroll within a document, to find out if Ra- 
dius accelerator performance is at least 
comparable to that of the Mac II. 

Recommendations 

I’he Radius performed fairly well, con- 
sidering that it does not have the 32-bit 
memory and disk cache other accelerators 
do. Benchmarks were comparable, so if 
you are just looking for a low-priced accel- 
erator, this is the one. In addition, you may 
not notice the difference between a Ra- 
dius-accelerated SE and a Mac II for day-to- 
day applications. 

But if you are interested in UNIX or 
true multitasking, or have memory-inten- 
sive applications, we recommend the Levco 
Prodigy SE over the Radius. Al.so, if you are 
interested in large-screen landscape moni- 
tors, you’d be better off buying either a Lev- 
co or a GCC board, since the Radius board 
works only with the Full Page Display. 

Overall, the Radius board is a reliable, 
low-end Mac II substitute for the SE. 
-Prasad Kaipa ami Robert Dai *is 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Benchmark Results 






Benchmarks for a .Mac 
II and an enhanced 
Mac SB. A special C 
compiler producing, 




Mac 11 


Radius 


Calculation Benchmarks 
W’hei.sione.s 


5s8.6()0 per .second 


638,300 per second 


68020 code and direct 


Dhry.sione.s 


2808 per .second 


2216 per .second 


68881 calls was used. 


I* K >ai i ng-poini ( )perai u jn.s 


18.S0O per .second 


19,354 per .second 


The graphics bench- 


Special I lenon benchmark 


165 .seconds 


233 seconds 


marks were compiled 
with Turbo l^a.scal 
version I.O. 


Graphics Benchmarks 
Slamed lines (8000) 


38.6 .seconds 


29.0 .seconds 




Rectangles (2000) 


7.3 .seconds 


7. 1 .seconds 




Circles (200) 


3.6 .seconds 


2.8 .seconds 




'lexi (38.000 characters) 


4.1 .seconds 


3.4 .seconds 




Money Worries? 



MacMoney 2. ()^ 

Personal Jinanclal software. Pros: txjw 
price: easy to learn : reryp^ood tech support: fast 
data entry: flexible report generation. Cons: 
Some features are of questionable value: begin- 
ners can be orerwhelnted by too many choices: 
no tutorial or demo data provided List price: 
Version 2. 1 Requires: 5JJR Copy 

protection: Notie. 




In.stead of feeling like a victim of 
your financial circum.stances.you 
can u.se a program Wkc^ MacMonty 
to gain understanding of your financial .sit- 
uation. You can then u.se that information 
to make decisions, such as determining 
whether you can afford to mo\e into an 
apartment and get a new car if you get only 
a 5 percent raise next year. 

Survivor Software’s MacMoucy will 



help you balance your checkbook, as well 
as write checks and alert you when bills 
are due. In fact, it will even write the 
checks for you. It can help you develop a 
budget, fill out tax returns, and prepare a 
first-rate financial .statement to show a loan 
officer. Although the bookkeeping is not 
.set up w ith general ledger, payable, and re- 
ceivable modules, .small-busine.ss owners 
may find the account-handlingcapabiliiies 
adequate for their needs. 



1S2 November 1987 



Though beginners may be intimidated 
by the large number of menu clioices avail- 
able, getting started is really quite simple. 
Just put your beginning balance^ and you’re 
ready to enter the information from your 
last bank statement. Because \*ou can shift 
entries between categories at any time, you 
can put all your entries in one or two cate- 
gories until you get a better feel for the 
|')rogram. The back of the manual lists sev- 
eral common catagories like salary, rent, 
car expenses, and entertainment. Similar 
to the chart of accounts found in business 
accounting, the list of categories lets you 
son transaction information into reports. 

No One Does It Faster 

Data entry is extremely fast. Three 
lists (Names, Categories, and ID Codes) ap- 
pear on the .screen at the same time. Many 
entries can be typed into these lists just 
once-ever. The three lists include the most 
common tran.saction names and categories, 
so you need only point and click to lill out 
a data entry form, l-'or a typical entr\’ you 
might click on the name of a supermarket. 
The program automatically in.serts the 
payee, Safeway; the category, Food; the 
date; and the check number, ju.st hi I in the 
amount and press Enter. The form looks 
like a check, but you can change it to re- 
semble a deposit, credit card charge, with- 
drawal, or service charge sli]:>. 

Each bank account or credit card has a 
.separate register of tran.sactions. You can 
even liave a register for cash, in case \'ou 
want to .see how all that .-\TM money gets 
spent. \bu can split individual transactions, 
for instance, if yxui want mortgage payment 
interest and principal credited to separate 
categories. 

Experienced bookkeepers will be 
plea.sed to discover that the program han- 
dles errors in a traditional nianner. Mac- 
Mouey lets you add a Void category; u.se 
the memo line for tran.sactions, produce an 
audit trail as a standard report, and recon- 
cile bank balances. Another flexible feature 
is the ability’ to edit every tran.saction, even 
months later, .so you can shift transactions 
from one category to another. 

\bu can mark routine tran.sactions 
such as mortgage or car payments .so that 
the program automatically reminds y'ou 
when they are due. With just a few’ mouse 
clicks you can adju.st the amounts, enter 
them in your check register, and print out 
the checks on your Image Writer. Sample 
checks are included in the package. 



Where Does It All Go? 

It takes a w hile to become familiar 
with the numerous controls on. the tw^o re- 
port-generating screens. With so many but- 
tons to choose from, beginners may find it 
confusing to set up cu.stomized reports. 
These choices, however, offer a range and 
control in report preparation that is supe- 
rior to more expensive accounting pro- 
grams. includes Income Si Ex- 

pense and Balance Sheet as standard 
reports, and Budget vs. Actuals and Net 
Worth for display’ing data graphically. \bu 
can also create customized reports as tem- 
plates for later use. It's easy to customize 
graphic reports; my fa\T)iite is one of the 
.standard menu choices, a pie chart of the 
largest expenses from the last month (see 
"Graphing Expense.s" ). MacMoriey lets y’oii 



the planning information to or from the 
main program. The only module I person- 
ally find Li.seful is Loan Planning, w’hich en- 
ables you to print an amortization table for 
a loan or enter .some variables and have the 
program compute the mi.ssing ones. 

If you find you need it, you’ll appreci- 
ate Survivor Software's thorough technical 
support. W'hen you call, you get a person, 
not a busy signal or an answ’ering machine. 
The chief programmer and company’ presi- 
dent frequently respond to the Mac IJ.sers 
Forum section on CompuServe. Survivor 
Softw’are also participates on GEnie, The 
Source, and MCI Mail. The documentation 
is adeciuate but wx)uld be improved by the 
addition of a tutorial and demo data on the 
program disk. The manual does provide 
good examples of personal, business, and 




Graphing Expenses 
O? fc of \\ aci\ 1( )nc\‘.s’ 
sfcmcianl graphs shows 
(he largest expense 
ctile^Hories from (he 
previous mon/h. Hy 
nsin^ii, (he program's 
standard and cus- 
(omized repor(s and 
graphs, yon can easily 
analyze yonr cnrrent 
financial situation. 



save re]:)orts in ASCII format, allowing data 
export to any program that accepts text 
hies. This could be useful if y'ou want to 
further analy'ze your hnancial data, say, 
w ith Microsoft Excel, or dress up a report 
with a desktop publishing program. 

Graphs can be exported through the 
Clipboard. 

MacMouey is slow to open and takes 
up a lot of disk space. 'Ib optimize disk 
space, yx)u should put the three planning 
menu options (Loan Planning, Retirement 
Planning, and Future Value/Goal ) on a .sep- 
arate program disk. These modules are not 
neces.sary for the operation of the pro- 
gram, and in fact there is no way to transfer 



tax-related categories. Version 2. 1, which 
should be available by the time you read 
this, w ill offer the options of using account 
numbers, .setting the start-up conligura- 
tion, and including running balances 
in reports. 

Survivor Softw’are .seems committed 
to providing its customers with good value 
for their money, a goal achieved with Mac- 
Money perhaps better than with any other 
.softwxire I know. Still, tho.se w'ith modest 
needs may prefer a less elaborate program; 
on the other hand, MacMoney wx)n’t fulhll 
the needs of busine.ss u.sers who want to 
keep more traditional books. But for most 
people with money concerns, it should 
prove an invaluable tool.-Sco// Beanier 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Macworld 1 53 



Reviews 



Four-Wall 

Challenge 

MacRacqtietball 

Sports simulation game. Pros: Sophisti- 
cated, realistic maneuverahility ami shot- 
making. Cons: lakes a long time to attain 
competency. List price: $599 5. Requires: Mac 
Pins. Copy protection: Not copyable. 



a -a: McicRcicc/uethall is the new rac- 
quetball simulation game from 
? ^ Practical Computer Applications, 

the company that produced the popular 
MacGolf. 

McicRcicciuethall games are played 
against the computer or against an oppo- 
nent via modem or ImageWriter II cable 
(an AppleTalk version should be available 
by the time you read this). When you load 
the game disk, a configuration screen with 
a series of vertical scroll bars appears. 
These bars let you select and adjust the 
abilities and tendencies of the players. Cer- 
tain scroll bars control a player's strength, 
stamina, agility, and accuracy. Others deter- 
mine predilections for types of serves (like 
drives and lobs), or volley shots (kills, 
passing, and ceiling shots), as well as the 
three hitting motions (forehand, backhand, 
and overhead). The player’s predominant 
style is designated by adjusting the settings 
labeled Aggressive, Reactive, and Defen- 
sive. Probably the most important scroll 
bar is the one that controls the speed of the 
ball: Game Speed. The higher the Game 
Speed setting, the greater the demands on 
your reflexes, which are not inconsiderable 
even at lower settings. 

While you can adjust the .scroll bars 
for your computer-opponent, the game 
limits the number of adjustments you can 
make for your own player. You can set 
strength, stamina, and agility, but your play- 
er’s overall style, serve, and shot selection 
are determined as you play. 

When you've adjusted the scroll bars 
for both players, you're ready for the court 
(although at any lime in the game you can 
easily return to the configuration screen to 
adju.st the characteristics). 




Court Sense 

\bu can choose the Warm Up mode 
to play by yourself, or you can go directly 
into a game. As the players enter the four- 
walled court and prepare for service, 
you're presented with a full-perspective 
3-D court. The players are digitized from 
live-action videotape and perform with im- 
pressive realism. To serve-or to execute 
any shot-you press the mouse button, re- 
leasing it as you push the mouse forward. 
Then you must move your player into posi- 
tion for the return. Determining exactly 
where you want your player to run is a real 
challenge. Even at a Game Speed of 20 per- 
cent you must quickly determine the best 
position for intersecting your opponent’s 
caroming shots. Geometry was never m\' 
forte; 1 played for hours before developing 
somewhat “instinctive” responses. 

The player runs in the direction you 
move the mouse, but more slowly. A dark 
square on the court moves in unison with 
the mouse, showing where your player is 
headed. It’s important to focus on the 
square; if you focus on your player, the 
time lag between the mouse’s and the 
player’s movements can be confusing. 

The manual warns that pushing the 
mouse too slowly will make your shot fall 
short, and a push that’s too fast will send 
your shot higher than you want. This 
mouse-pushing procedure is difficult to 
master; in fact, other than while serving, 1 
had no succe.ss applying it. My mouse 
thrusts often seemed to have no effect 
what.soever, but that may have been due to 
poor player positioning. However, yt)u can 
return some shots without moving the 
moLi.se, simply by getting your player into 
position and clicking the mouse button. 



Ready, Aim... 

The point where you intend your shot 
to go is the aiming .spot, which appears as 
a square or a diamond, depending on 
which wall (or ceiling) you direct it to. You 
control this aiming spot by holding down 
the Command key and moving the mouse. 
Skillful manipulation of the .spot depends 
on quick recognition of where your oppt> 
nent’s shot is headed. The operations are 
sequential: first get your player positioned, 
then maneuver the aiming spot. Develop- 
ing adequate coordination of the two oper- 
ations can be a slow and tedious process 
(one I’m still learning). However, the first 
time I swept the aiming spot to the rear 
wall and saw my player turn 180 degrees to 
drive his shot again.st it, my feeling was 
pure excitement. The ability to place a shot 
an>'where on the court takes the game to a 
sophisticated level of play. Playing over the 
modem against a live opponent is al.so 
great fun and can result in a fa.scinating 
tactical battle. 

Final Rally 

MacRcicquetball is an extremely chal- 
lenging game, and not without nuisances. 
I've yet to understand the spatial relation- 
ship that results in my player being struck 
by the ball, thus losing the point. And 
sometimes my computer-ojDponent’s be- 
havior makes no .sense. In a 21 to 0 game, I 
served every ball to the .same place on cen- 
ter court and the opponent failed to return 
a single shot. 

Expertise comes slowly. Manipulation 
of the mou.se, recognition of shot angles, 
and control over the aiming spot are a\\ dif- 




Volley 

Your player is in posit ioft to return your oppo 
nent's shot off the rear wall. Direct your return 
shot by moi htg the aiming spot (small square) 



154 November 1987 





ficult to learn, let alone to combine into 
smoothly coordinated play. Sure, you can 
slow the game down to a craw^l, but you’ll 
derive little pleasure from w^aiting for the 
ball to finish its slow^ motion bouncing af- 
ter each point. I suggest you start by play- 
ing at the recommended levels and player 
configurations, but play for short periods 
of time and w’alk aw'ay before acute frustra- 
tion sets in. Occasionally you’ll move flu- 
idly and instinctively, making deft shots. 
Such moments reveal a game of tantalizing 
possibilities-one of the most sophisticated 
sports simulations iVe encountered. 
-Richard Miller 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Solid State 



TDIModtila-2 for the Macintosh, 
Developer*s Version 1.00 A 

Development environment. Pros: Gener- 
ates fast, compact code with full Toolbox access; 
compiles textbook-style programs; not limited by 
52K segment size. Cons: Sketchy documenta- 
tion; buggv editor; can’t cotnpile large source 
modules (over 32 K). List price: Version 
3 .OOA $ 149.95 Requires: 512 K. Copy 
protection: None. 




For those of you who have been 
' w’aiting for a solid, inexpensive, 

I native-code Modula-2 compiler 
for the Macintosh, your w^ait is over. TDI 
Modula-2 for the Macintosh shares the 
strengths and weaknes.ses of its prede- 
cessors, TDI’s other Modula-2 compilers 
for Motorola 68000-based systems (Pinna- 
cle, Atari ST, and the Amiga). 

As a development tool, TDI's editor 
has a number of problems: it doesn’t con- 
sistently recognize tabs, the automatic in- 
dent doesn’t work, and it is slow^ handling 
files larger than about lOK. The editor does 
recognize invisible markers that the com- 
piler puts in the file w^hen it finds an error, 
how'cver, w'hich helps you locate compila- 
tion errors quickly. (Whatever editor you 
use, do not include tabs in the file, or the 
compiler wall flag them as illegal charac- 
ters.) TDTs prerelease version of 3.00A has 
fixed bugs in the editor, although it is still 
somew^hat limited when compared with 
other program editors. 




How Much, How Soon, How Fast 



Application Size (in bytes) Three prcjgrams were 

used to gauge how 



Development 

Environment 


MiniEdit 


CatchMe 


FileDemo 


large an application 
each development 
tem generates: M ini- 
Edit, by Stephen 


TDI Modula-2 l.OOA 


11,861 


4928 


8520 


TMI. Modula-2 1.0 


12,982 


4606 


7986 


Chernicoff; CatchMe, 
by Bob Perez ; and File- 


TML Pascal 2.02 


10,611 


3894 


6809 


Demo, by Chris 


MPW C 2.0B1 


12,112 


4228 


7143 


Morgan. 



Development 

Environment 


Compilation Time 
(in seconds) 


This table shows bow 
long each system took 
to compile and litik 


TDI Modula-2 l.OOA 


212 


MiniEdit to create 


TML Modula-2 1.0 


176 


a stand-alone 
application. 


TML Pascal 2.02 


89 




MPW Pascal 2.0111 


181 





EB3B 



Development 

Environment 


Solution Time 
(in seconds) 


TDI Modula-2 was able 
to solve Towers of 

HiinfTi ulifh Q di<:h< in 


TDI Modula-2 l.OOA 


0.4 


half the time it took the 
other systems. 


TML Modula-2 1.0 


0.8 


TML Pascal 2.02 


0.8 




MPW Pascal 2.0B1 


0.8 





The compiler is very efficient at gener- 
ating compact code that executes quickly. 
But since it is a five-pass compiler, it s not 
very fast (the upgrade is speedier). Be 
careful not to compile large implementa- 
tion modules (64K of heap space) or the 
compiler will run out of memory and fail. 

The linker is also solid and efficient, 
eliminating unnecessary code. Interfaces 
to the Macintosh Toolbox (as described in 
Inside Macintosh, vols. 1-4) are included, 
as w^ell as the standard Modula-2 libraries 
described in Wirth’s Programming in 



Modula-2 (the unofficial standard for the 
language). One of the source examples is 
the M2Shell, a Finder/MiniFinder alterna- 
tive, which is also a part of the develop- 
ment environment. In addition to the 
M2Shell, TDI provides a number of other 
examples, including 3-D graphics and mul- 
titasking. The system is neither yV/Z)5- nor 
A/PW-compatible, w4iich limits its access to 
existing libraries wTitten in other lan- 
guages; however, machine-level access is 
provided via in-line CODE statements. 
Tools provided with the package include a 
source cross-referencer, an object code dis- 
assembler, and a communications program 
(a Kermit variation). 



Maavorld 155 




Reviews 



When you’re using either the com- 
piler or the linker, you’ll see very little of 
the Macintosh interface. Instead you’ll get 
a progress window without menus, where 
you are prompted with Standard File dia- 
logs. When you click Cancel in the SFGet- 
File dialog, you exit the program and re- 
turn either to the M2Shell or your Finder 
ecfuivalent. 

Although the documentation gives 
complete descriptions of the libraries and 
the system's general operation, no starting 
point is provided for Modula-2 novices. 
Specifics are poorly covered with sketchy 
information and too few examples. (TDI 
has promised rewritten documentation for 
version 3.00A.) However, helpful teclinical 
support is available by phone or via 
CompuServe. 

If you’re interested in programming 
your Macintosh in Modula-2, this package 
will provide a solid base; but if you are new 
to Modula-2, you will need additional refer- 
ences. Inside Macintosh is a must for any- 
one planning to program the Mac, but it is 
not a tutorial. 1 recommend A/r:/c7>7/ox/7 
Rerealed {yoh. 1 and 2) by Stephen Cher- 
nicoff as a good introduction, since its Pas- 
cal approach adapts fairly easily to 
Modula-2. Experienced Macintosh pro- 
grammers who are familiar with M(xlula-2 
will hnd this package a pleasure to use. 
Those who plan to develop large applica- 
tions, though, might want to consider an- 
other environment. -y:)e77;7/x Cohen 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Works Writing 
Enhancer 



WorksPltis Spell 7.0 

Spelling checker for Microsoft Works. 
Pros: Seamless infegrafion with Works; 
good at suggest it ig corrections: sett si tire to 
case and transpositions. Cons: No word 
counter: hyphettatioti problems on a 512K: 
some (fuestionahle dictionary entries. List 
price: Versioti I.OAt $59.95. Requires: 512K. 
Copy protection: None. 



El 



WorksPliis Spell adds a spelling 
checker, hyphenation capability, 
and a limited glossary to the word 
processing module oCMicrosoft Works— 
giving users more of the power found in 







Spelling Corrections 

Here the screen displays the usual spellittg- 
checker choices: Cancel, Skip. Add/ Ignore, 
atul Change. 



Word 3.0, without sacrilicing \^wks' 
friendline.ss and simplicity 

The Spelling Bee 

W)rksPlits Spell checks spelling 
against a 70,000-word dictionary, either in- 
teractively as you type or aftei* you select a 
section of text. This fast-working program 
lets you acce.ss the dictionary to look u\y 
add, and remove words, and it’s also good 
at suggesting appropriate alternatives. The 
dictionary must be kept on the desktop, 
however, since it can’t he accessed from 
within a folder. 

When the spelling checker is running, 
it’s impossible to change anything other 
than a highlighted word, but it’s easy to in- 
terrupt the checking process and return to 
the document. When called upon to find a 
correction ibr a possible error, the pvo- 
gram offers .standard choices (.see '‘Spelling 
Correction.s”). But WorksPltts Spell has two 
peculiarities: the default choice is Change 
rather than Skip, and adding a word to ei- 
ther the document’s dictionary or the main 
dictionary requires two .steps. 

rhe program recognizes capitaliza- 
tion, which reduces the number of words 
unnecessarily flagged, and it’s also good at 
recognizing transposed letters. Despite 
the.se unusually nice features, WorksPhts 
Spell’s dictionary appears to contain some 
incorrect si:»ellings and some very rare 
words that could frequently represent 
typos-such as ahjectioti, shads, yttriu})}, 
and zaire. 

And the Extras 

'fhe hyphenation program works ei- 
ther automatically or along with the hy- 
phenation helper, which asks the user to 
approve each choice. The automatic ver- 



sion requires a big chunk of memory: it 
won't load on a 512K Mac and will crash a 
Mac Plus if used with the spelling checker 
in interactive mode. 

1 lyphenation is flexible, automatically 
reformatting when line length is changed 
or text is added. Undoing a hyplienation 
without changing the text involves reselect- 
ing that portion of the text and running the 
hyphenation helper again. Users can set 
the minimum number of characters on 
both sides of the hyphen, but the i')rogram 
defaults to the .standard .setting at the next 
work session. 

The glossary works well, as long as 
you choo.se an abbreviation that i.sn't in the 
main dictionary. However, there is no way 
to embed a carriage return into a glos.sary 
entry. Version 1.1 is expected to allow botli 
permanent changes in hyphenation prefer- 
ences and carriage returns in iheglo.s.sary. 

All in all, WorksPhts Spell :iMs .some 
useful features \o Microsoft Works. And if 
the upgrade successfully addresses the 
minor llaw.s of the current v'ersion, it will 
be better still.-377c/ Horoiritz 

See Where to Bity for product details. 



Behind the Scenes 

Scripttvriter 1.17 

Scripltvriting and word processing 
package. Pros: Versatile scriptwriting and 
editing features: adranced word processing ca- 
pabilities. Cons: Learning dual-column editing 
takes some effort: master disk required for leav- 
ing the hinder. List price: Version 1.25 $495. 
Requires: 5I2K. Copy protectUm: Key disk. 



American Intelliware’s powerful 
new theatrical and audiovisual 

scriptwriti ng program provides a 

much-needed tool for tho.se occasions 
when the director stops the cameras and 
.says, “Let’s look at that script again.” Script- 
writer allows for just about every contin- 
gency: changes, additions, deletions, and 
those last-minute do-it-all-over-again 
reque.sts that are inevitable with 
script writing. 



High-Powered Scripting 

Scriptwriter offers screen|:>lay and 
dual-column formats, as well as a word 
proce.s.sor that supports a variety of profes- 
sional scripting applications. News, docu- 



156 November 1987 




nientary, and industry writers will be 
particularly ]:>ieascd with Scriptwriter ^ ef- 
fective dual-column capabilities, although 
it'takes some time to become adept at 
using the dual-column editing features. 
Television and motion-picture writers will 
appreciate Scriptwriter'^ automatic setup 
of scene and page numbers, along with an 
unlimited glo.ssary function that allows 
single-key insertion of character names, 
scenes, parentheticals, dialogue in.sertion 
points, and script instructions. As you add, 
delete, or edit scenes. Scriptwriter auto- 
matically renumbers them as required. 
When you're working with scripts that can 
easily go over one hundred pages, auto- 
maiic renumbering of .scenes .saves consid- 
erable time and energy. 

Perhaps Scriptwriter's most valuable 
feature is its autopagination, which auto- 
matically breaks the page at an appropriate 
point, inserts a transitional word (such as 
contitinecl), proceeds to the next page, 
and adds the character identification. You 
can also choo.se page-break options, such 
as Break Only After Dialog. Following your 
instructions, Scriptwriter determines 
whether to break the text or move the 
scene, dialogue, or block of words to the 
next page. You can program the auto- 
back uj*) to save work in progress whenever 
keyboai'd input is halted, even for as short 
a period as 15 .secoiids. Scriptwriter offers 
two other useful features, which are not 
available ori any other scripting program: a 
TelePrompTer mode, which lets you .scroll 
long scripts at variable rates without rely- 
ing on the mou.se, and the ability to print 
help liles without forcing you to quit the 
program-so you can refer to hard-cop\' 
notes as you go along. 



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Dual-Colunnt Mode 

tfi its cii/(it-cotin)ni cotifyiira/ion, Scriptwriter 
ietS You choose single orrciriahte spacifi^^ in ei 
then cotimni. It s the ontv scri[)tini^ i)ro}i,rant to 
offer this (uiremta^e. 



Scriptwriter's fast word processor 
takes full advantage of the autopaginaiion, 
page-breaking, and autobackup features. 
You can u.se its special spell-check life for- 
mat with existing .spelling checkers, and 
you can .save hies in ASCII (text-only) for 
transfer to other word proce.ssors. Script- 
/cr/Ver supports unlimited windows but 
will not proce.ss footnotes, nor will it im- 
port graphics into the body of the text, 
though graphics can be imported into 
header and footer locations. After review- 
ing your word processing recjuirements, 
v'oLi may decide that you don’t need any 
Ollier word processing softw'are. 

Top Billing 

Although several packages exist 
for .scriptwriters, including Scriptor and 
CitieWrite, Scriptwriter appears to be in 
a class by it. self. Scriptor is a formatting 
program that lacks a word proce.s.sor and 
works only with Microsoft Word l.OS. 

Mac3 s CitteWrite, develoj:)ed in France, is 



Scriptwriter's cio.sest competitor; it offers 
both screenplay and dual-column script 
options, but its limited editing capabilities 
in dual-column mode make it clearly infe- 
rior \o Scriptwriter 

Like Scriptwriter, ChieWrite allows 
different character names and scene de- 
scriptions to be entered with two or three 
keystrokes, but it offers neiihev Scriptwri- 
ter's intelligent page-breaking nor its auto- 
pagination. UnWke Scriptirriter, CineWrite 
allows you to see the final format only 
when you print it out. And it offers only 
one font (Chicago), while Scriptwriter sup- 
ports loadable and downloadable fonts in 
9- to 24-point sizes. 

Ratlier than combine storyboarding 
and .scriptwriting in a single program, as 
Mac3 did with CineWrite, American Intel- 
liware chose to develop a separate pro- 
gram Storyhoarder, which includes 
.special formats for desktop publishing, 



Macu'orld 157 




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pix*scntation graphics, and sophisiicaicd 
animation. Although CmeWrite'^ story- 
board feature lets you program Mac- 
Paint Hies to run in real time along with 
scene lists and descriptions, the.se effects 
take up so much memory that you'd |'>roba- 
bly need a hard disk to use them. Together, 
Scriptwriter and Storyboarcler provide 
many more useful professional features 
than does CineWrite with its simpler 
graphics capabilities. 





Format Selection : 


§ 


Bduonced lilord Processing 


i 


Screenplay UJriting 


1 


R/U Dual-Column IDriting 

( Cancel ] |( OK j| 



Flexible Formats 

From the Fimleryou select otte of three formats: 
screenplay, cinal colitmti, or word processittp^. 
Fach format uses all p/*Script write r’^' inlelli^eitt 
features, including, at tlopaf*i nation, pa^i^e breaks, 
and autohackitp. 



CineWrite offers a number of produc- 
tion tools (shot li.sts and notes) that are 
likely to benelit only a story promoter, film 
director, or production manager. Such ex- 
tras are of questionable value to the writer 
and actually limit CineWrite*^ scripting 
potential. It seems as CineWrite's^ devel- 
opers couldn't decide whether to support 
writers or production planners. By aiming 
at both, they’ve created a program that 
doesn’t fully support either. On the other 
hand, by emphasizing scripting and editing 
functions in one program and professional 
graphics and animation in the other, Amer- 
ican Intel liware has managed to accommo- 
date both groups. 

7’he compam' also offers excellent 
u.ser support through a toll-free number 
and provides an unlimited number of soft- 
ware upgrades for a one-time fee of $25. 

bast, powerful, and easy to use, Script- 
writer can, not surprisingly, be found in a 
wide variety of applications. It’s being used 
by the UvS. Navy, Honev'well, Universal Stu- 
dios, and “The Cosby Show” For a writer to 
whom the play’s the thing, Scriptwriter 
certainly has the decided -Richard 
Ilainty 

See Where to Bay for product details. 



A Little Byte Music 

Studio Session l.O 

Music composition software package. 

Pros: Easy to use: excellent learning attd com- 
position tool: good sound reproduction. Cons: 
.\’ot yet MIDI compatible. List price: $7995 
Requires: 5 UK. Copy protection: None. 



1 lere is a unique product for the 
Mac that makes it possible for the 
most un.schooled, ten-thumbed 
musicians to compose and play their 
personal masterpieces. On six instru- 
ments, no le.ss. 

One Piece at a Time 

Studio Session has two main applica- 
tions: the composition, arrangement, and 
playback of your own creations; and the 
mixing and mangling of the 21 sample 
songs and the 91 different “instruments” in- 
cluded in the .sound library. IVvo additional 
sound library disks, the Heavy Metal Mu- 
sic Disk and the Country Music Disk, can 
be purchased separately. Studio Session 
also has a composition phrase library con- 
si.sting of segments of the sample composi- 
tions, which can be jxisted together at your 
di.scretion. \bu can also create your own 
segments and add them to the library. 

Studio Session works best on a hard 
disk, but functions quite satisfactorily on a 
Mac 512K system if you don’t mind occa- 
sional disk swapping. 

When you start up Studio Session, 
you are presejued with three icons: Player, 
Editor, and Phrase Library. For a c|uick view 
of wbat’s going on, click on Player. An im- 
age of a tape player appears with six VU 
meters across the top, which allow you to 
control the activities of each music track. 
Below the VU meters are the buttons you'd 
expect on a tape player, as well as tempo 
control. There is even an animated cassette 
tape that plays, rewinds, and fast forwards 
like the “reel thing.” 

Before you can play a composition, all 
the required instruments must be in mem- 
ory. Here’s where the disk swapping comes 
in-the instruments are located on .Music 
Discs 1 and 2, arranged in alphabetical or- 
der. Once the instruments have been load- 
ed, click the Play button and listen. For the 




full effect of Studio Session, you should 
attach an external speaker to the Mac; 
better yet, plug the Mac into a stereo. 

To alter existing song files, or to create 
new ones, you use the Editor. An entirely 
separate application from the Player, the 
Editor displays one of six staffs (or tracks), 
on which you place notes and other music 
notation by pointing and clicking. You can 
then build your composition by switching 
between staffs and adding new lines. (By 
the time you ix^ad this, a new version of 
Studio Session will probably be available, 
with eight tracks and full MIDI capability.) 
Whole sections can be cut and pasted from 
one score into another, and transposed up 
and down by an octave or a balf-step at a 
time. You can also bend notes, tie notes to- 
gether, and “swing” sections of your score. 
You can assign different time and key signa- 
tures and temj:>os, and change instruments 
an\ where in tlie score. 



Spike Jones, Eat Your Heart Out 

1 took Studio Session's version of the 
theme from 2001 {Also Sprach Zara- 
thustra) and replaced the crescendo horn 
section with digitized crowing roosters. 




158 November 1987 




Compose Yourself 
The Editor is at the 
heart q/‘ Studio Session. 
Here you build your 
compositiou-addhi^ 
notes a fid rests, select- 
ing time siguatures 
ami meters, and 
choosing instruments. 



ifc File Edit Selection Insertion Phrases Ulindoios 






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Frivolous, perhaps, hut U demonsi rated the 
sofivvare/movie/video/animation sound- 
track potential of this system for comedic, 
new wave, and “third-stream classical” pro- 
ductions in addition to more traditional 
applications. 

Studio Sessioifs documentation is 
among the best i Ve ever seen. Still, it s a 
large program with many effects available 
to users only after a lot of experimentation. 
(This is, of course, true of any musical 
instrument.) 

Playing with Studio .S’e.s\s7o// was .some 
of the best fun I've had in a long lime. I 
highly recommend this program as an en- 
tertainment, composition, and educational 
tool. It s also great tor a laugh. -Keu 
Goehuer. 

See Where to Huy for product details. 

Macro-Making 
for the Mac 



AutoMac II 2.0 

Macro program. Pros: Easy to create mac 
ros: macros can tnoiv bet tree n applications. 
Cows: Disables ^ key combinations in some 
programs List price: Version JO 9 S49.95 
Requires: 5 UK Copy protection: .\'one. 



® A macro is a command secjuence 
that executes a .series of rejKnitive, 
intricate, or lengthy respon.ses. 

You can use them to create glossaries, exe- 
cute batch hies, manipulate windows, set 
up pre.seniations, and even create limited 



animations. The possibUities .seem endless. 
Macrt)s, in fact, offer .so much potential 
for increased functionality that you may 
wonder w'h\* Apple doesn’t include a macro 
capability in the Macintosh System hie. But 
it doesn’t and that’s w \v:^re AutoMac II 
comes in. 

The Hands-off Approach 

AutoMac II is a macro-generating pro- 
gram that in.stalls automatically in memory 
(using only 15K) and resides there along- 
side wiiatever el.se you happen to be run- 
ning. 'Ib generate macros using, AutoMac 
II, first enter the Opt ion- Backspace com- 
mand. I'his calls up the dialog .screen (see 
‘The Recording Box”). Finer the key you 
w'ant to control the macro you're about to 
create. Click Record. I'hat’s it. Perform the 
action you w ant to be turned intt) a macro 
exactly as you want it to be done. When 
you're hnished, press Option-Backspace 
again. Your hrst macro has been created. 

How h Works 

All AutoMac II does is record mouse 
movements and keystrokes exactly as per- 
formed, either as a simple event sequence 
or in real time. Whatever you do, in the or- 
der you do it, becomes the blueprint for 
the resulting macro. If you make a mi.stake 
w'hile recording a macro, the macro will 
repeat the mistake every time, but don't 
w'orry, macros can easily be redone. 

Generally, you’ll record macros as 
event sec|uences. This means that the mac- 
ro w'ill execute the recorded events as fast 
as the Macintosh can re.spond, which is a 



lot faster than you can. Long, complex com- 
mand sequences can be speeded up con- 
.siderably, and .switching from one format to 
another can be accomplished in seconds. 

AutoMac II is al.so “immortal:” you 
W'OiVt purge it by switching programs, so 
you can create macros in one application 
and transfer them to another. After you’ve 
created the macros for one application and 
.saved them as a set, they’ll load automat- 
ically every time the application is used. 

This brings up one cjualificaiion, how-- 
ever. II records mouse move- 

ments and keystrokes independent of the 
environment in which they’re running. For 
example, if you run a macro created for 
MaeWTite while you’re in MacPaint, the 
keystrokes and mou.se movements will 
behave as though they w^ere in MaeWrite. 
The result will jM'obably be meaningle.ss. If 
your macro includes a lot of mou.se move- 
ments, make sure not to alter the environ- 
ment, or your macro w’on t beha\ e as 
planned. 

Macro Programs Compared 

AutoMac II is not the only macro 
package for the Macintosh. Besides 
Tentpo, there’s al.so a macro utility called 
Toiicb.n.Go, included in Cortland’s 
Top Desk DA collection. 

Tempo offers more features than its 
competitors, including up to 24-hour de- 
lays and macro .script editing. Since it's 
much larger than either A///oA/^/c II or 
Touch. n. Go, it’s better suited to hard disk 
sy.stems. Still, Tempo is the only choice for 
creating fully automated pre.sentations or 
programming functions to take place in 
your ab.sence. Tempo installs as an extra 
desk acce.ssory. 

I'ottch.n.Go is a lighiw'eight, by 
compari.son, but comes on a disk with six 
other TopDesk DAs. rnlikeA/z/od/^/c 
Touch. n.Go is apiAicaiion-.specihc-its mac- 
ros can’t travel from one aj')plication to an- 
other. And since Touch. ti.Go is a DA that 
mu.st be installed w'ith its own utility, if you 
have a l ull System tile, you’re out of luck. 



nutoMac"'* Macro Recorder 




Key Description of neui macro 




|b IjDloioUpMoc 1 


□ Record time delays 


[ Record ] 


□ Record key numbers 


1 Cancel ] 



The Reconiing Box 

Auio.Vlac II proi'ides a simple dialog box in which 
to enter the key code and description of yottr 
customized macro 



Macworld 1S9 





Reviews 



AutoMac Recommended 

Since it uses so little memory and of- 
I'ers mtjbile macros, I recommend 
iMcic over the other prcj^rams mentioned. 
Because A///OiV/^:/c // is memory resident, 
however, some programs that handle mem- 
ory in nonstandard ways ( many games, 
telecom programs, and Wore/ 5.0) may not 
work properly. Programs that use a lot 
of §§-key equivalents also present prob- 
lems. I'ortunately, A/z/od/c/c* // can easily be 
toggled on and off. 

'rhe // disk contains a set of 
MaeWrite macros and a utility for custom- 
izing 3§-key choices, and its highly readable 
manual is packed with information. A///o- 
Mac II is easy to use, reliable, and power- 
ful. It's the kind of program you don't 
realize you need until you have it; then you 
can't imagine being without \{.-Hric 
Ikilchvin 

See Where to Buy for j'>roduci details. 



Baby Talk 



First Shapes I.O 

Children *s educational }*ame. Pros: Pasy 
foryou}!^ children lo inidersland and use: 
entertai)}hi^ graphics and speech: rariety of 
^(Wies. Cons: Expensiiv coni/Hired with ttott- 
computerized games that teach similar con- 
cepts List price: 5>/9.95 Reeptires: 5J2K. 

Copy protection: Sotte. 

MacRobots I.O 

Children*s educational gatne. Pros: Hasy 
for young children to understand a}td use with 
minitmtl adult help: cfiterlainifig graphics and 
speech: rariety of games. Cons: cia})ws cannot he 
customized lo meet individual child's needs. 

List price: $49. 9 "S Requires: IJSK 
Copy protection: Key disk. 




gj, Designing educational software 
for preschoolers isn’t easy A child 
. who can’t read obviously won’t 

« learn to use a program by study- 
ing a manual, so programmers 
have had to develop new ways to 
convey concepts and instructions to non- 
readers- without depending on parents 
and teachers. 




Shapes 



Toy Factory Make-a-Match 



First Shapes 
Picture Menu 

The child can choose 
at ly of the si.\ pictures, 
the smalt U in the up 
per left corner opens a 
cu.s'tomizitig screen for 
use by parents or 
teachers. 



One obvious .solution is the ase of 
icons. Picture menus make sen.se to kids, 
who t|uickly learn to point and click the 
mou.se. But for conveying instructions and 
asking cjiiestions, icons are no sub.stiiute 
for the .spoken word. I’his is where speech 
synthesis .software comes in. li allows the 
Mac to sjK‘ak in plain, if .somewhat me- 
chanical, Fnglish. First Byte's .SV;/oo//?- 
'la/ker which has been incorporated into 
sev'eral educational programs, set the stage 
by allowing the computer to interact in an 
entertaining way with kids who haven’t \et 
learned how to read. 

First Shapes 

To teach the basics of pre.school ge- 
ometry, first Byte has develoj:)ed I'trst 
Shapes, w hich incorporates Snioofhla/ker 
.speech synthesi.s. After an itiiroditctioti 
from the robot -voiced 'led F. Bear, a picture 
menu offers live different game options 
(.see 'darst Shapes Picture Metut" ), frotn the 
sitiiple Shapes to the challetigitig Make- 
a-Match. 

Shapes provides an introdttctioti to 
the live shapes (.square, circle, triangle, 
rectangle, and oval ) that the child will u.se 
iri the other program modules. I’he dby 
factory teaches children to build custom- 
ized dolls, trucks, robots, atui other toys by 
choositig shapes for each part of each toy. 
dby Fair is a simple drill-and-j')raciice game: 
the child .selects shapes in response to ver- 
bal recjue.sts. And Make-a-Match allow s 
players to llip cards in pairs, looking for 
matching shapes and pictures. 

Children are not penalized for wrong 
an.swers, and a 1 lelper menu ojxion allows 
parents or teachers to customize the pro- 
gram with personal names, me.ssages, and 
other options. The manual that accom- 



panies the program is useful, with lots of 
tips (or ma.ximizing the educational bene- 
hts of First Shapes. 

MacRobots 

Unicorn Sofiwiiivs MacRobots, an 
educational smorgasbord for j'>re.schoolers, 
afso ii.ses the .S’/;/oo//)7^if/A^er speech synthe- 
sizer. Like Ifrsl Shapes, MacRobots pro- 
vides easy acce.ss to several simple games 
via a picture menu (the chi\c\ may ;v\so use 
pull-down menus or the keyboard to 
.select options). 

In Robot Story, the computer recites 
verses from a modernized nursery rhyme, 
illustrating each verse w ith an animated 
scene and allow ing the child to type the 
correct number to linish the verse: ‘Ten lit- 
tle robots all in a line, I .strolled away and 
then there were... I low many?” Count t\K* 
Robots is a simple counting game wit It 
graphic rewarLls and hints after answers. 
Robot Addition introduces addition wiili a 
similar game. Letter xMatch familiarizes 
children with letter shapes and the key- 
bt)ard layout by asking them to locate and 
type letters to match the .screen display, f i- 
nally, Robot Construction (a .sort of com- 
puterized \ ersion of Mr. Potato I lead ) 
allows the child to .select body parts to cre- 
ate a variety of unusual fantasy robots. It's 
not as fancy as I'irst Shapes' 'Xo\ f'aciorv, 
but younger kids still enjoy it. 

Educational Objectives 

Both ofthe.se programs were clearly 
kid-te.sted by their designers. Both u.se 
icons, picture menus, and speech so effec- 
tively that a typical nonreading child can 



160 November 198"^ 



learn lo use fhem with jusi a liule initial 
guidance from an older helper. They re 
also entertaining enough that most young 
children will enjoy playing them for long 
periods at a time. While noncompuier pre- 
school games offer the .same benelits with 
le.ss cost, the.se programs do provide kids 
wiiii tools for developing .skills nece.ssary 
for learning to read and think logically. 

And probably jii.st as imj')ortant is the fact 
that they provide a way for children to be- 
come more comfortable when interacting 
with the computer it.self-C/eo/;t,^e 
Bcch})Hui 

See Whinv io Bity for product details. 

It Only Hurts 
When I Stop 
Laughing 

Bureaucreicy 

Iftiemctirc fiction ( intermediate level). 
Pros: A hiji*hly cHlcrUi/ninjL> c.wrdse in frnslm- 
tion. Cons: PmionjLii'd exposure could cause 
blood pressure. List price: 

Requires: 5/JA'. Copy protection: .\oue. 



Burccuicrctcy. 'I’he word alone 
is enough to bring .some people 
to their knees. When Douglas 
.Adams, author oVrbc ! Ulchhi be r's Guide 
to the Gala.xy, ran afoul of the linglish 
postal and banking sy.stems. he decided to 
exact revenge. Drawing on his experiences 
and his own unicjue view of the human 
comedy, he created Bureaucracy the late.st 
of the madcap text mi.sadventures 
frt)m Infocom. 

Pack Up Your Troubles ... 

Things start out innocently enough. 
\bu have just mo\ed into town to start a 
new job with the I lappitec Corporation. 
\bur furniture has been lo.st in tran.sit 
.somewhere, but that s OK- 1 lappitec is 
sending you to Paris for a week of training 
and vacation. You leave this afternoon. 
Punny thing though, your plane ticket is at 
the airport and you have no way of getting 
there, lb make things even more intere.st- 
ing, you haw no money, your credit cards 
have been canceled, and your bank has 
sent your change-of-address form to the 
wTotm place and won’t let \’ou acce.ss your 



account until the form is properly hied. .As 
you explore your new neighborhood for 
clues to a wa\ out, you encounter a cast 
that includes llamas, .shotgun-packing 
grandmas, nerd hackers, and a ho.st of oth- 
ers. This is before you get to the airport, 
where things start getting unusual. 




... and Smile, Smile, Smile 

B/weaucracy w ill make \'ou laugh, 
cry, cur.se, pull out your hair, and scream 
like a bansliee. Although it is probably the 
most enjoyable e.xercise in frustration on 
the market, I can’t recommend Bureau- 
cracy to hrst-iime text -adventure players 
unless they are avid Douglas Adams fan.s. 
Ikit the experienced |')la\er w ill not want to 
mi.ss this game.- Ac;/ Goebuer 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Mac-Mainframe 

Solution 

pcLhik :l. 9 

Terminal emulator. Pros: Versatile terminal 
emulation. command scri/)tin,ii capability: poir 
erful Macintoshto- \A.V integration sojhcare for 
serial and tithernet contiections. Cons: \ofte. 
List price: SJOOO for 5 users, SSOOO forJO, 
SlO.OOOfor 50, SI5.0()0 for 100, SJ5,000for 
250, SM, 500 for 500. Requires: 5/2K. 

Copy protection: :\one. 



lYicer Software’s pcLiub is more 
than a terminal emulation pro- 
gram. It’s a powerful integrated 
mainframe telecommunications product 
that brings ea.se of u.se lo both casual and 
power users. j)cUub suppons both asyn- 
chronous ( KS-232C. up to .^8, 400 baud ) 
and Ethernet communication protocols; it 
emulates six popular terminal types, in- 
cluding VT220, VTIOO, and 'lelevideo 950. 
pci.iub .stands on ecjual footing with many 
popular telecommunications programs, 
thanks to its programmable function keys, 
its powerful .script language ( including 
Macintosh-like interface features), iisses- 
.sion log liles, and its ability to brow'se or 
print Macintosh text hies without c|uitiing. 

pcUuk's mo.st important feature is the 
integrated Macintosh-to-mainframe com- 
munication environment it provides. 'I'he 
.server software offers tile transfer, virtual 
Macintosh di.sks, print spooling, and high- 
speed Ethernet connectivity, 'fhe.se fea- 
tures give heavy users high-performance 
VTIOO emulation along w ith Ethernet con- 
nectivity; casual u.sers w ill appreciate the 
ea.se w ith which they can acce.ss \ ATS and 
UNIX mainframe applications. 

Custoini/ing Your Terminal 

'lb .simplify lengthy key.siroke com- 
mands. /;c7./;//? provides 20 mou.se-acii- 
vated .soft keys (on-.screen function keys). 
The dehnition for each .soft key (.see ‘ De- 
lining a Soft Ke\”) can consist of any or all 
of the following: a nontext leading com- 
mand ( for instance, to clear the pc/.iub 
.screen or move the cursor), a .string of text 
(the ho.st command ). a nontext trailing 
command, the name of a di.sk lile contain- 
ing a set of .soft-key deliniiions to load, or 
the name of a disk lile containing a script 
lile to e.xecute. 

pci.iuk al.so pro\ ides a |')owerfuI 
.scripting language for creating advanced 





Maovorkl K)l 



Reviews 



4 flit Citll log Config rhonc I 




Defining a Soft Key 

pcLink uses this dialog to define soft heys. The e.\ 
ample here is designed to inroke the UNIX editor 
vi. This definition loads a separate set of soft key 
definitions specific to vi, atid then executes a 
script fide named t fnix Vi, whose contents are lis- 
ted in the article. 



macros and uirnkey user interfaces to 
mainframe software applications. For ex- 
ample, here is a script to invoke the UNIX 
editor vi: 

selectTChoose a File to Edit", 
aputsi*"*); 

The select( ) procedure prcxluces a 
dialog resembling the standard file dialog 
(SFGetFile) with a list of files in the current 
directory on a UNIX host. If one of the hies 
is cho.sen, the select( ) procedure generates 
a command line to start vi with the hie 
chosen by the user. The aputsf ) subroutine 
simply adds a carriage return to complete 
the command line. 

Using scripts such as this one, you 
can incorporate .some of the familiar u.ser- 
interface features of the Macintcxsh into 
mainframe applications. Script liles can be 




File Transfer with pci.ink 

Setting up a file transfer with pcLink is as easy as 
it looks. Hit the button labeled MAC file. To select 
a file, you enter the l.uxst file name, select the 
transfer type and direction, and off you go. A 
view r/pdJnk'.v 20 programmable soft keys ap- 
pears in the main window just below the title bar 
The soft keys shown here contain some common 
I ’NIX commands 



written w ith a text editor or recorded auto- 
mat ically from a .series of u.ser actions. 
Script commands are available for chang- 
ing communication .settings, dialing or 
hanging up the phone/modem, (ile tran.sfer 
(including host-initiated transfers), print 
.spooling, prompting for input with 
Macintosh dialogs, and programmable 
time delay.s. 

Mainframe Communications 

Pacer preconligures the mainframe 
server |•)ortion of the pcLink sc^ftw'are for 
your specific mainframe and operating sy.s- 
tem, making for ea.sy in.stallation. Pol low- 
ing the clearly wr itten in.stallation instruc- 
tions, I completed the whole proce.ss in 
le.ss than IS minutes on a Pyramid UMIX 
system. terminal .software is also 
available for the IBM PC and the I)E(] 
Rainbow. 

The pcLink server/terminal combma- 
tion supports text, binary, and MacBinary 
file transfers. You can ea.sily initiate all hie 
transfers through a single dialog (.see “File 
Tran.sfer with pcLink"). A menu selection 
also allows the terminal software to re- 
spond to hle-transfer requests from the 
mainframe. The.se three types of (ile trans- 
fers will be siil’hcient for mo.st u.sers. Nev- 
eiThele.ss, I found my.self washing that 
pcLink also included MacXModem, the 
tran.sfer method frequently used by Mac 
owners running UNIX. 

pcLink supports communication over 
Ethernet netwwks via Kinetics’ Fa.stPath 
(AppleTalk^Ethernet) or a SCSI/Ethernet 
connection. I tried out the Ethernet am- 
nection wath the Pyramid version of the 
pci.ink UNIX server and the L'asiPath gate- 
waty. The pcLink Ethernet .software in.stalla- 
tion wais straight for wail'd and w'ell docu- 
mented, but the FastPath in.stallation re- 
cjuired .some guidance from the local UNIX 
guru. Once we got connected over Ether- 
net, communications w-ere blindingly Ta.st. 

pcLink. lets you create virtual Mac 
disks in the ho.si machine’s file space-an 
advantage if your Mac is running short of 
disk space. \bu create a virtual disk by des- 
ignating disk space on the mainframe com- 
puter as one or more Macintosh disks. The 
virtual disk appears to your Macintc^sh ju.st 
like any other disk, and you can acce.ss it 
from any Macintosh application. Remem- 
ber that for a virtual disk, access speed is 
limited by communication speed, .so you 



must be connected at a minimum of 9600 
baud or you must be using an Ethernet 
connection. 

pcLink s unique combination of termi- 
nal emulation, integrated mainframe .soft- 
ware, and Ethernet support make it an 
excellent product for mainIVame computer 
users. 1 highly recommend pcLink for 
mainframe u.sers with busine.ss and .scien- 
tific applications. For serious programmers 
and code developers who don't need the 
integrated .software capabilities, the Ether- 
net support alone makes peUnk w^ell 
worth looking \m\-Dcive Bnniarcl 

See Where to Buy for product details. 

Move Over, Dollars 
and Sense 



In-House Accountant 1.0 

Financial management package. 

Pros: Easy to learn and use: dear documenta- 
tion with many examples: good futtctionality. 
Cons: $1 million limit: requires preprinted forms 
for in t voices and statements. List price: SI 49. 
Requires: 512K Copy protection: Notw. 



Personal financial management 
Tv and .small -busine.ss accounting are 
not all that different. Monogram’s 
Dollars and Sense is probably the mo.st 
popular financial management program for 
the Mac. In fact, many of its users are small- 
busi ne.ss owaiers. 

Migent has capitalized on that overlap 
in its new' Mac product called In-House 
Accountant. The program has .so many 
features that it compares favorably w'ith 
programs cla.ssilied as accounting .soft- 
ware, but its simplicity makes it an excel- 
lent choice for personal u.se as well. 



Integrated Functions 

In-House Accountant offers general 
ledger, accounts payable, and accounts 
receivable functions, and includes .some 
minor inventory capabilities as well. The.se 
three functions are integrated into a single 
program that does not actually differentiate 
between them. In.stead, you have accounts, 
names, and tran.sactions. Names can refer 
to ciustomers or vendors, if you’re using 
the program for a busine.ss-or the name 
you write on your checks, if it’s for per- 
.sonal u.se. 



162 November 1987 






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Edit Ti'ansaction Whtdouf 

Each transaction you otter in In- Mouse Accoun- 
tant ’.v Edit lYansaction window can have up to 50 
distribution accounts. If you select the invoicing 
features, you can enter item quantities for print- 
ing on invoices. 

If you have checking account trans- 
actions that include names, In-House 
Accountant assumes that you’re either 
receiving or v^Titing a check, and it keeps 
track of that name’s balance. The program 
makes similar assumptions for accounts 
you’ve labeled as receivables and payables. 
You can j:>rint computer-generated checks, 
invoices, and statements for any named en- 
tity. Overall, the organization of the pro- 
gram makes it well suited for both home 
and business users. 

You can enter up to 500 four-digit ac- 
counts with In-House Accountant. For 
each one, the program tracks monthly bal- 
ances for the previous and current year, 
monthly budget amounts, and year-to-date 
amounts. If you select the invoicing feature 
when setting up the program, you can 
track unit counts for an account and enter a 
unit price that is automatically used to cal- 
culate the total amount if you specify a 
quantity for a transaction line. 

Transactions and Reports 

All In-EIouse Accountant transactions 
are entered through the same window (see 
“Edit Transaction Window”). You specify 
one source account and up to 50 distribu- 
tion accounts for each transaction. De- 
pending on the source account code and 
whether the source amount is positive or 
negative, In-House Accountant deter- 
mines the type of transaction and displays 
it underneath the source amount. If you 
enter a name that's not already on the 
names list, the program will automatically 
add it to that list. Transaction data-entry 
couldn't be much easier. 




The program has a variety of other 
features, including single-level password 
protection. Ybu can reconcile an account to 
your bank statement and enter transactions 
for all 12 months of the year, as well as view 
transactions from the previous year. The 
program readily handles more than one 
business or household. Ybu can create a 
batch of either automatic or recurring 
items for handling repetitive transactions. 
Recurring transactions can be modified 
before posting, though automatic transac- 
tions cannot. The program includes a set of 
18 functions that let you calculate vSome 
common financial amounts, including de- 
preciation and loan calculations. 

One of the program’s strengths is its 
reporting capability. It generates a good set 
of financial reports-income statement, bal- 
ance sheet, trial balance, general ledger, 
journal listing, an aging report, and so on. 
In addition, you can create a variety of 
transaction subset reports by using ac- 
count, date, and document-number ranges 
and other selection criteria. These options 
can be used to create detailed receivables 
and payables lists, a cash receipts journal, 
and a variety of other important financial 
reports. In-House Accountant also in- 
cludes pie-chart and bar-graph commands 
for graphical account analysis. 

There are a few things In-House Ac- 
countant do. Unable to distinguish 
between open-item and balance-forward 
customers, it automatically assumes all are 
balance forward. It can handle neither in- 
dividual amounts nor account balances 
greater than $999,999.99, which could be a 
problem for some potential business users. 

I found some other minor Haws in the 
program. First, it labels miscellaneous in- 
come and expenses as extraordinary items 
on the income statement. The word ex- 
tracm/inary has a specific meaning in ac- 
counting terminology, and it doesn’t re- 



fer to miscellaneous items. Second, the 
reference section of the documentation is 
ridiculous. It consists of a series of one- or 
two-sentence descriptions for each menu 
command. All the important information is 
found in other sections of the manual, 
which are basically well written, clear, and 
detailed, with lots of examples. Third, 
you’ll have to order special forms if you 
w’ant to print invoices or statements, iiie 
program should have plain-paper options 
for those types of output. Finally, none of 
the program’s limitations are mentioned 
either on the packaging or in theinanual’s 
introductory section. 

Overall, though, In-House Accoun- 
tant is a very good program. Migent has 
packed a remarkable amount of function- 
ality into a simple, easy-to-use program, 
which it s selling at a competitive price. 

The program is particularly appropriate for 
individuals but has some feature limita- 
tions that may not make it suitable for all 
businesses. It should give Dollars and 
Sense, and some of the dedicated small- 
business accounting products, a run for 
their moxxQy-Stene Mann 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Macw'orld 163 







Shareware and 
Public Domain 
Game Awards 



Here are my choices for the best public clomaitj 
and shareware ^ames. The foUowbi^ unofficial 
awards were ^ivett for excellence in software 
design and implenwt nation, creativity, play- 
ability, and humor. Sometimes logical and 
sometimes arbitrary, these categories are not 
intended to be taken too seriously. 



Another excdleni Breakout game is 
Hrfckles, a program with wonderful fea- 
tures that most Timeout fans should enjoy. 

I lonorahle mentions go to Brickies, Mac- 
Bu^s, ixnd Ashes. 

Best Implementation of Rogue and 
2-D Maze Game: The Dtttiffeoft of Doom is 
an adaptation of the well-known game 
Rogue. In The Dungeon of Doom, you 
c'ontrol a small character in a large multi- 
level maze. Various monsters try to impede 
your progress, while you collect weapons, 
gold, food, and other surprises. Played en- 
tirely with the mouse, the game features 
well-drawn, amusing graphics. As you ex- 
plore each maze level, yotir path is traced 
to create a small (hut potentially u.seful) 
map. Since The Dittigeon of Doom is a 
magical realm, a variety of oddities like 
potions, scrolls, and rings can yield posi- 
tive or negative effects. Experimenting 
with these magical objects should appeal 
to Russian roulette fans. 

Best Egyptian Adventure and 3-D 
Maze: The Scarab ofRa is a nifty maze 
game that places you in the role of an ar- 
chaeologist who has fallen into the inner 
chambers of the fabled Great Pyramid of 
Ra. To escape, you must explore increas- 
ingly complex maze levels, locate three sa- 
cred relics, and find a door to the outside. 
The game is graphically appealing because 
of its excellent design, its use of perspec- 
tive, its detailed monsters, and its real hi- 
eroglyphics written on the walls. Although 
it is pretty easy to complete, The Scarab of 



Ra is thoroughly enjo\ able and exhibits a 
line sense of humor. 

Best Motion Study. Billiard Parlor is 
loaded with special effects. Written in Reed 
College’s Rascal programming language, 
Billiard Parlor offers several pool games, 
including billiards, eight ball, and rotation. 
The mouse serves as your pool cue, and 
you drag it away from the cue ball to aim 
and set the force of the shot. You can also 
set the English on the ball by .selecting the 
exact spot of impact. Other features in- 
clude instant replay, saved shots, Fatbits, 
and trails behind the balls to illustrate their 
paths. Ball movement is very realistic, and 
excellent .sc^und effects add to the fun. 
Billiard Parlor is a must for pool fans. 

Best Candidate for a Coronary: Air 
Traffic Controller is for the strong, the 
quick-minded, and the patient. Simulating 
the job of a real air traflic controller, this 
game can have you handling up to 5 air- 
ports and up to 150 planes. Even at the 
minimum conliguration ( 1 airport, 5 
planes), this program will challenge you. 
You must order each inbound plane to its 
proper approach path while avoiding near- 
misses. One collision or a landing off the 
runway; and the game \s twer. Ouibound 
planes must be safely^ sent on their way 
without mishap. Options include settings 
for allowable altitude and distance (before 
a near-miss is recorded), length of shift, 
and number of planes and airports (see 
'‘Best Candidate for a Coronary^"). 

As in the real world of air traffic con- 




While public domain and share- 
w'are utility programs like Packit 
V and Xmodem have enhanced our 
productivity, other such programs have 
given us respite from the trials and tribula- 
tions of everyday life. These games can be 
found on major bulletin-board systems like 
GEnie, CompuServe, and Delphi; they're 
also available from user groups. 

Best Arcade Game: Timeout is a desk 
accessory version of the popular Breakout 
game. Although the game it.self is simple, 
its accessibility from within other applica- 
tions makes it the ideal diversion when you 
want to take a break. 

Timeout offers 15 speeds-from tooo 
slooow to sofastyoumightaswellforgetit. 
You determine how long each game lasts, 
but when time runs out, the game ends. 
The idea, of course, is to achieve faster and 
faster times. 




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Rest Candidate for 
a Coronary 
The Air Traffic Sched- 
ule shows you a 
plafw's current posi- 
tion, the controllers 
in.structiofi, the plane ‘s 
point of origin, re- 
(j Hired destn latiof i, 
and the amou)it of 
time remaining, before 
running out of fuel or 
before the sc/jeduled 
departure or arrival 
time. 



16-4 November 1987 





trol, you must anticipate and plan ahead. 
Air 'D^qffic Controller has a dedicated, if 
slightly masochistic, following. No one I 
know of can handle the maximum number 
of planes and airports successfully, so I 
highly recommend Traffic Controller 
for those who seek an ongoing challenge. 

Best \(/orld Builder Game: Silicon 
Beach’s World Builder game-development 
system has spawned a whole breed of 
games on bulletin boards. These games 
range from fairly professional stories to 
clever, creative efforts by kids and teen- 
agers. Deep Angst pokes fun at the whole 
process. Its an entertaining-if somewhat 
cynical-send-up of the whole genre of 
graphic adventure games. Highly recom- 
mended for those with a sense of humor. 
Honorable mentions go to Death Mall 
3000, Radical Castle, DRex, and 
Edg*s World. 

Best of Show: Cap’n Magneto is m\' fa- 
vorite shareware game. It contains all the 
important elements-good graphics and 
animation: unique and effective user inter- 
face; interesting, offbeat plot: puzzles; 
humor; a major goal; and several minor 
goals. And it even talks (512K required) via 
Macintalk. Cap’n Lance Magneto is a mem- 
ber of the Intergalactic Rangers-whose 
mission is to recover the stolen Crown of 
Control, defeat the evil Menturg, repair a 
broken spaceship, and finally lift off. Al- 
though Cap'n Magneto resembles other 
games with its emphasis on fighting and 
destroying enemies, it requires strategy to 
win. Moreover, making friends is at least as 
important as fighting, wiiich sets Cap'n 
Magneto apart from the rest. 

Cap'n Magneto successfully com- 
bines arcadelike features with the puzzle- 
solving spirit of a good adventure game. 

It s all infused with an irreverent sense of 
humor that makes even the frequent share- 
ware “pitches” enjoyable (at least for a 
while). 

Of the hundreds of public domain and 
shareware games in circulation, some are 
not worth the downloading time. Nev- 
ertheless, most of them represent many 
months of work, and the\' enrich our lives 
by pro\'iding a creative exchange not 
bound by commercial restraints. 

M\' thanks to Steve Costa of BMUG and 
to the users of GEnie who responded to 
m\^ pol 1. DeMaria 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



On Time 



Time Logger 2.11 

Time tracker. Pros: Easy to use: easy to react 
and access records, AutoRun and manual oper- 
ation; versatile default options; calculates hourly 
fees; inexpensive. Cons: Must be manually set to 
track some games, desk accessories, and utilities. 
List price: Shareware Si 5; site licenses avail- 
able. Requires: 512KE. Copy protection: 

None. 



When clients, the IRS, and others 
ask what you do with your Mac, 
Time Logger can provide a pain- 
less answer by automatically recording the 
time you spend in each application. For 
more detailed information, you can indi- 
cate in a dialog box precisely what you’re 
doing each time you open or close any ap- 
plication (including the Finder), and each 
time \'ou shut down or start up your Mac. 
The program also lets you calculate your 
online time, so you can separate business 
from leisure time, track client bills {Time 
Logger can calculate fees based on hourly 
rates), and log phone calls. For report 
purposes. Time Logger produces tab- 
delimited text files, which are readable by 
most databases, spreadsheets, and word 
processors. 

Like most desk accessories, Time Log- 
ger is simple to install with Apple’s FonD'DA 
Mover. If you want to set AutoRun for star- 
tup and shutdown, drag the Time Logger 
Init into your System Folder. If you prefer 
keyboard controls to the mouse, then in- 
stall the Time Logger F-key with Apple's 
ResEdit or Carlos Weber’s EKey Manager. 

Time Logger lets you record various 
kinds of information in the Logger Files: 
client name, client code, comments, date 
work started, time work started, time work 
stopped, number of minutes worked (takes 
into account time-out periods), billing 
(your rate multiplied by the time logged 
on; if this amount is less than the minimum 
charge you’ve specified, your minimum is 
used). Since Time Logger lets you maintain 
several Logger Files, you can organize re- 
cords any way you want. Unlike other time- 
usage programs, it lets you keep the files in 
different folders and on separate disks. 

You’ll find Time Logger's files easy to 
access and read. Double-clicking on a Log- 
ger File will open the document in Mac- 
Write. Or you can launch Excel and then 
select the Logger File. In fact, any program 



that can read text files should be able to 
read the Logger File without forcing you to 
put the application and the file in the 
same folder. 

The Manual Advantage 

The AutoRun mode w*on’t disturb you 
as it records the amount of time you spend 
within an application. You can choose to 
record additional information in a dialog 
box upon entering and leaving an applica- 
tion. If you w-ant specific entries but don’t 
want to log everything you do, manual op- 
eration is faster than AutoRun. You can call 
Time Logger at any time to close, open, or 




alter the information it is recording. If, for 
example, you w'ant to remain in an appli- 
cation, but have completed w'ork for one 
client and are about to begin w’ork for an- 
other, simply invoke the Time Logger dia- 
log box and record the change. By select- 
ing Time Logger vsnih the Option key 
depressed, you can change your default 
fields and settings and even the file in 
which you w-ant to store the record. You 
can also track the games, utilities, or other 
DAs that you can’t record with the AutoRun 
feature. To record w-hat you’re doing, you 
can close or time-out Time Logger w'hen- 
ever you want. 

Time Logger 2.11 has several advan- 
tages and no disadvantages w^hen com- 
pared with a similar product, SoftView’’s 
MacInUse 1.0 (see “Tracking Mac Usage,” 
Reviews, Macworld, ]\x\y 1987). Unlike 
Time Logger, MacInUse cannot keep more 
than one log file on one di.sk, and it does 
not record time in the Finder. MacInUse 




.Macworld 16S 



Reviews 



lets you write to the file only wl'ien you 
leave an application, so if you’re working 
with more than one client in the same ap- 
plication, you must quit the application 
before going on to the next client. Also, 
reading the log files and transferring them 
into your spreadsheet or wx^rd processor is 
cumbersome, since the log file, templates, 
and the application you want to use must 
all be in one folder or on the desktop level. 

Time Lo^^er, with its comprehensive 
documentation, is an outstanding bargain 
at S15. The author, Loftus E. Hecker, Jr., con- 
scientiously supports and frecjuenily up- 
dates the program. If you have any reason 
to record or report how you spend your 
time on the Mac, I recommend the ver- 
.saiile Time Logger over any other applica- 
tion. Its only drawback is that it does work, 
thereby confronting you with the evidence 
of how you really spend your lime on the 
U’cXQ.-UmiaJoari Kaplan 

See Where to Buy for product details. 



Mouseballs 



This nouconiprehemive review contnients on 
several mouse cleaning proclifcts, mot tse pads 
and other mouse accessories. 



Within a few years, computers 
have created a global industry, 
countless jobs, an infectious jar- 
gon and, arguably, a whole new wa\' of 
perceiving the world. For any creation im- 
pacting so profoundly on human affairs, 
there must be an equally magnificent 
spawning of accessories. 

Mouse Cleaning 

Despite this reviewer s failure to ever 
notice such sticky substances in the atmo- 
sphere, the mouse appears capable of ex- 
tracting something resembling tar from 
the very air we breathe. Ergotron s $16.95 
Mouse Cleaner 360° is the first and only 
tool we have seen that can thoroughly 
clean the gummiest stuff off of mouse roll- 
ers in just a few seconds. You place its bris- 
tled scrubber ball in the mou.se ball socket, 
then run the mou.se in circles over a Velcro 
.scrubber pad. Although it lacks an equally 
cjuick and effective wa\' of cleaning mouse 
balls, Mouse Cleaner 360° is the only com- 




mercial system we’d recommend as a sub- 
stilLite for the old alcohol, blade, and Q-tip 
remedy. 

Max the Mou.seDuster, available for 
55.95 from Applied Elastomerics, is a 
sticky, stretchy, plastic blob of .synthotech 
vveirdne.ss, shaped like a 3-inch gumdrop 
cal. When yxui completely enclose a mouse 
ball with Max every speck of grime ad- 
heres to it. This product al.so picks up 
undesirable loose stuff from mousepads, 
clothing, and virtually anything el.se. Max is 
.soap-and-waier washable, albeit in a .slimy 
fashion. If you don’t find Max's texture di.s- 
gusiing to begin with, and if you have a 
general lint problem, you will probably 
lind .Max the MouseDuster handy for one 
thing or another. 

The Kensington .Mouse Cleaning Kit 
with Pocket is impressively packaged to jus- 
tify its $24.95 price tag. The kit contains 
foam-lipped swabs, a tiny bottle of cleaning 
.solution, a tiny can of compre.s.sed air, and 
a mou.se storage pocket in the .style and 
color of the Macintosh. In our test, the rec- 
ommended procedure failed to fully clean 
dirty mouse rollers. 

\X'e al.so found Tacklind s $14.95 Real 
Clean lacking as a mouse cleaner. Its 
thumb-forefinger rotation, socket-cleanser 
tool lakes too much time to wear the goop 
off rollers, and .seems messy when used 
with cleansing .solution. 

Mouse Pads 

.Mouspad by Moustrak, Inc. ( $*^.95 to 
$10.95 ) is very similar in quality and .style 
to the Kensington s Mouseway pad, but 



we liked the .softer Mouseway surface a lit- 
tle better for quick moves. At $9.95, the 
.Mouseway is one of the most rea.sonably 
priced products we examined. Mouseway 
gray does not match the color of the .Macin- 
tosh as the label claims; instead, it re.scm- 
bles the color of an IBM PC. Now; nc:) need 
to hi.ss. 

The most hand.some mouse pad on a 
wooden computer desk might be the genu- 
ine leather Mouse-Hide from Pilot Enter- 
pri.ses, $15.00. After a few weeks of heavy 
u.se, though, it was already getting shiny 
spots w'here the mouse skipped. 

Wheels and Paw^s 

A moiLse’s nubb\' little feet (on either 
side of the .serial number ) will eventually 
w^ear out with use, and it will become wob- 
bly. A couple of products provide .solutions 
to this problem and are impnwements over 
.standard-i.ssue mouse performance. 

Mou.se Mover by Magnum .Software 
gets you rolling .smoothly with three metal 
ball bearings in a plastic frame that is easily 
.snapped on. Since the roller balls of the 
Mouse Mover it.self will most likely become 
clogged w ith lime, its $19.95 retail price 
seems a bit steep. 

A mouse movement enhancer with no 
moving parts is .Mou.se Ea.se by Tacklind 
De.sign. For $2.95 you get lour genuine 
mou.se-si/.e Tellon .stick-on paw’s, similar to 
those now^ on new-model Apple mice, just 
the right thickne.ss to pixnide optimal 
mouse ball surface contact. The non.siick 
properties of Tellon are be.si realized on 
hard surfaces, w here movement is c]uick 
and easy. 

Whatever acce.s.sories you purchase 
for your computer, or for the rest of ycnir 
life, first examine them carefully, then 
make sure you can get a refund if you are 
not satisfied. And may the Schwartz be 
with you -Keith McCanclless 

See Where to Buy for product details. 




166 Nt)vvmber 1987 





BackPac 40 comes pre-formatted 
and works right out of the box. 

It is \ er\’ eas\- to install with no dangling cords or cables. 
Once installed, BackPac 40 can be left in place permanently 
or removed tit any time.Tlie combined Macintosh Plus and 
Backl^ic 40 slips into a standard Macintosh cariying case. 



How small is the BackPac 40~? See for yourself. . . 

For those of you who wore unable to visit Jasmine at MacWorld Expo in Boston and exclaim 
“I didn’t realize it was so //;/«!” we’d like to pro\ide you widi the opportunity to do so now: 
We worked hard at Jasmine to integrate proven technology' into such an extraordinarily small, 
light and convenient package. As quiet in operation as the Macintosh Plus itself, BackPac 
40 offers you the convenience and portability of an internal hard disk with the reliability and 
ease of installation of an external hard disk. 



Simple installation 

1 Kmotv Mac pouvr cord 

2 Remote battery door and 
place in stoi^^e receptacle. 

3 Remote 2 loner screm uitb 
toolpmiided Place in 
stora^ie receptacle 

/ Snap BackPac 40 and SCSI 
^ connector into place on 
Macinta^) Plus. 

5 Tighten BackPac 40 
fasteners uith coin 

^ Plug Mac pouer cord 
0 into BackPac 40. 

Z PouerupMacand 
BackPac 40. 



Eier^ tbing in iL^ place - 
Com enient storage l.m been 
pmided on tl)e inner panel for 



SfiecificatUms- 
Size.9"xO'\xlWUbick 
Weight: less than, I pounds 
time: 29 millisecomb 



l\iuvr snitch for ■' 
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something 
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■ Or compute large, multi-way 
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TOPS has been extended to 
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Accounting 
Business Forms 

Database Management Systems 
Desk Accessories 
Financial Management 
Mailing Lists 
Marketing/Sales 
Productivity 

Spreadsheets and Integrated Software 
Tax Management 



214 COMMUNICATIONS 

Communications Software 
File Tra n s fe r/Co n ve rs i o n 
LAN: Products and Ser\'ices 
Modems 

Terminal Hmulators 

224 STORAGE 

Hard Disks 
Removable Media 
Tape Backup Units 



190 PROFESSIONS AND INDUSTRIES 

Engineering and Science 
Legal 

Mathematics and Statistics 

Medical and Dental 

Real Estate/Property Management 

198 PUBLISHING 

Desktop Publishing 
Index/Bibliography 
Outliners 
Spellcheckers 
Word Processing 

204 GRAPHICS 

2- D 

3- D 

Animation 
Business Graphics 
Clip Art 
Fonts 

Paint/Draw 



234 SYSTEMS AND MEMORY 

Buffers and Spoolers 
Memory^ Upgrades 
Monitors 
Portable Macs 
System Upgrades 
Utilities 

244 INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES 

Bar Code Readers 
Cameras 
Digitizers 
Keyboards 

Mice and Alternatives 

Plotters 

Printers 

Scanners 

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Doug Clapp Word Tools $CALL 

Affinity 

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Full Paint $59.95 

Fullwfile Professional $CALL 

Batteries Included 

Battery Pack $27.00 

Thunder $29.00 

Berkeley Systems 

Stepping Out $64.00 

Blyth Software 

Omnis 3+ $279.00 

Executive Assistant $CALL 

Borland 

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Travelling Sidekick 


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Turbo ’^ascal 


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Central Point 
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Cricket 

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Cricket Graph 


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Slatworks 


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Data Tailor 
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Calculator construction set ..$59.00 


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Mainstay 

VIP 


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Microsoft 

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Multiplan 


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Word 


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Chart $72.00 

Mindwrite Software 

Mindwrite $79.00 

Monogram 

Dollars & Sense $89.00 

Odesta 

Double Helix $289.00 

PCS 

Versaterm Pro $194.00 

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Quark 

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World Builder $47.95 

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his is the first Macworld Buyer’s Guide, a listing of over 
900 products. Since the world of Macintosh products now 
includes more than 3000 items and is constantly growing, 
we have chosen to provide an updated directoiy primarily 
for business and professional use. You will find here a 
wide range of business and professional products, includ- 
ing an array of over 50 accounting and spreadsheet pro- 
grams; specialized programs for engineers, physicians, and 
real estate brokers; and all the elements of desktop pul^lishing for profes- 
sional and personal use, Also listed are graphics programs, communica- 
tions software and hardware, storage items, systems and memory prod- 
ucts, and every kind of input/output device. All categories include both 
software and hardware products to make your Macintosh a more wide- 
ranging and versatile tool. 




Despite our best efforts, however, this guide isn't complete. It is intended 
to give you a very good idea of what the market offers at this time. 

Product information was gathered directly from the manufacturers, and 
the prices given are those current at the time the information was col- 
lected, You should check each product with your dealer or the manufac- 
turer before you buy to make certain it has the features you need and, 
most important, that it will run on your machine. No endorsement by 
Macivorkl is implied by this listing. 



Note: Because many products fall into more than one categoiy, please 
check a second or third category when looking for a certain product. 

(For instance, a design program for engineers may appear in the 2-D 
Graphics category or as an engineering item in the Professions categoiy.) 
Also note that some manufacturers produce a series of products with 
minimal variations among them. Such series will be listed only once. 

An * in the Notes column indicates that a hard disk is recommended. 

There are a number of other guides available for Macintosh users, most 
notably The Macintosh Buyer’s Guide, The MacGuide, 'dnd The Book of 
Macintosh Software. CHA Sendees and The Public Domain Exchange are 
two of the many companies publishing programs in the public domain. 



176 November 1987 




OSE C, A-T. 

C.A.T. - -The Powerful, New Relational Database for MlBnagl ns 
Contacts, Activities and Time . . . Without Prograjmmlng. 



Successful business people hard-pressed to 
keep on lop of their ever-growing list of con- 
tacts are finding C.A.T. is their most powerful 
and valuable personal productivity tool. 

Just as success breeds success, so does suc- 
cess increasingly expand your contact network. 
And the more contacts you make, the more 
balls you must juggle at one time. 

But C.A.T. puts you in control. It lets you 
categorize and group your contacts in an 
orderly manner reflecting the way you work 
and think. So you can manage them in more 
meaningful ways — and keep all the balls in 
the air at one time. 

Before the amazing C.A.T, you could only 
design forms with a simple program that was 
unlikely to keep up with your future needs. Or 
you could program your own solutions — with 
much difficulty — using some rigid database. 

But C.A.T. now lets you manage your con- 
tacts the common sense way — without pro- 
gramming. 

Yet the sophisticated C.A.T. is so flexible it can 
be adapted to any business and so versatile it can 
be used In hundreds of ways, for example: 

• Managing projects like new product intro- 
ductions, promotions and meetings — C.A.T. 
tracks the status and details of each project. 

• Doing mailings like invitations, form letters, 
newsletters and labels — C.A.T. files every 
mailing to each contact, activity and time. 

• Recording day-to-day events — C.A.T. tracks 
trip planning, expense reporting, client 



management, personnel records, information 
requests, etc., etc., etc. 

Take charge . . . with C.A.T. It lets you 
manage the quality as well as the quantity of 
information about your contacts. 

C.A.T. is brought to you by Chang Labs, 
developer of the popular Rags to Riches inte- 
grated accounting system and applauded 
throughout the computer industry for our pre- 
sale services and post-sales support, 

Our team of business consultants is ready to 
answer your C.A.T. questions anytime — even 
before your make your choice. Give us a call at 
our toll-free number, describe your business 
and let our expert consultants match the right 
solution to your needs. Then any authorized 
Apple or C.A.T. dealer will help you put our 
suggestions to work. 

800 - 972-8800 

(in California Only: 800-831-8080) 

Or send us your business card, and we*ll 
mail you our free 6-page brochure. 



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408-246-8020 

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Business and 
Finance 





he proliferation of higlvcjualit\^ soft- 
ware for accounting, record keeping, 
financial analysis, and special report- 
ing has helped the Macintosh make 
extensive inroads into business use. 
Whatever type of business you ha\ e, 
it s likely that, coupled with the right 
software, the Mac can m^ike your 
wwkckiy simpler, more efficient, and 
more enjoyable. The following 
survey looks at the predominant 
categories of business needs. 

Spreadsheets and Integrated Software 

Spreadsheets and integrated products are .second 
in popularity only to word processing software. If you 
take the time to learn a product and build appropriate 
templates, you can use one of these programs to auto- 
mate just about any business or financial function. For 
complex calculation functions, you’ll probably need all 
the spreadsheet power and speed you can get. For 
simpler uses, it makes sense to check out products that 
are easy to learn and u.se. 

The hands-down leader in the high-end inte- 
grated software category is Microsoft Excel; with 
spreadsheet, graphics, and database capabilities, it is 
the standard by which others are judged. Lotu.s’s Jazz 
has more features, including spreadsheet, graphics, 
database, word processing, and communications mod- 
ules, though it cannot compete with Excel in power. 
For less complex needs, Microsoft has Works, a 
straightforw^ard package that includes word proce.ss- 
ing, .spreadsheet, database, communications, and 
graphics modules. Some users need no 
other program. 

There are also good choices if \ou 
need only a spreadsheet. MgcCmIc handles 
large templates and has many of ExceE^ ca- 
pabilities at a much lower price. Dxipeze 
takes an untraditional approach-its temp- 
lates are constructed as a collection of 
blocks rather than cel Is. 

Ifl Once you've decided on plain or kin- 

Jji specific product is a matter of 

personal choice. Try a few programs and 
buy the one that is easiest to use, most flex- 
ible, or that combines features you need. 

Accounting 

Accounting software is used for re- 
cording and reporting day-to-day business 
tran.sactions. It mu.st handle the different 
types of transactions that occur in busi- 
ness, record them accurately, and prepare 
the types of reports that help you run your 
business. Most accounting programs record informa- 
tion accurately, but they vary widely in the types of 
tran.sactions they can handle and the types of reports 
they provide. For comprehensive accounting func- 
tions, vou mav have to make a substantial software in- 



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vestment, thougli some inexpensive programs, like 
BPIs General Accounting for the Mac, do a lot for the 
money. 

Because accounting is central to running a busi- 
ness, do your homework before buying a particular 
software product. Carefully match it to your busines.ss 
needs, perhaps with consultation-an increasing num- 
ber of third parties specialize in selecting accounting 
software. If you need to automate just part of your 
business, like professional billing, restrict your search 
to programs that emphasize your targeted area. 

As in most product categories, the most creative 
accounting software in the microcomputer industry is 
being developed for the Mac. Products such as Chang’s 
Rags to Riches and Layered’s Insight take advantage of 
the Mac user interface to present easy-to-understand 
view's of accounting data and w hat they mean. Look for 
even more imaginative products to come, including 
multiuser capability. 

Databases 

Database products can be divided into two gener- 
al categories- low'-end file managers and high-end re- 
lational databases. At the low' end, a variety of products 
can be used for miscellaneous data-management tasks. 
They differ in reporting flexibility, forms-management 
capability, ea.se of learning, price, and other features. 
The w'ide choice of file managers for the Mac-there 
are literally dozens-can make it tough to find the right 
one. Some of the more popular programs are Filemak- 
er Plus, w'hich includes a forms generator; Fact Finch 
en OrerVue; and Record Holder 

Soon, pow'erful clB III w’orkalikes w'ill provide ac- 
cess to existing templates for MS-DOS; they include 
clhMan from Varosoft, Mac Max by Nantucket, and 
Ashton-Tate s dBase Mac. 

Some database products are hard to categorize. 
Borland’s Reflex is an inexpensive but pow'erful rela- 
tional database that rivals the high-end products in 
some functions. Changs C.A.T. is dedicated specifi- 
cally to managing daily busine.ss activities. Business 
Filerision is for applications that can be best ex- 
pressed graphically. Some products are sold primarily 
as forms managers, marketing and sales programs, or 
mailing list managers. 

Por basic list management, a file manager may be 
the best. For complex applications, someone on your 
staff needs at least a general understanding of pro- 
gramming. It’s almost impo.ssible to use the more .so- 
phi.sticated products w'ithout that skill. 

Other Applications 

For a .small busine.ss, personal financial .software 
is often more than sufficient for accounting. Mono- 
gram estimates that more than half the copies of 
Dollars and Sense are u.sed for accounting. When 
shopping for financial management .software, look for 
convenience in handling recurring tran.sactions. For 
personal financial .softw'are, no w<idely u.sed product 
was designed specifically for the Mac, though the re- 



cent Mac Money is having some success. For business 
presentations, several products with varying empha.ses 
are available (see “Graphics” and “Publishing”). 

In tax preparation, the mo.st popular product is 
Soft\ iew^’SiV/^?c/;77^.\; which completes personal and 
corporate returns and prints a full .set of IRS-approved 
forms on both the ImageWriter and La.serWriter. But- 
ton-Dowai Softw^are’s Profit Stalker is designed for 
portfolio management, and Pro- 
Plus's MarketPro handles port- 
folio management, fundamental 
analysis, and technical analysis. 

You can do many financial man- 
agement functions using a 
.spreadsheet. In fact, a variety of 
Excel and Works templates han- 
dle tax preparation and planning, financial manage- 
ment, inve.stment tracking and analysis, and other jobs. 
The.se templates usually are le.ss expensive than dedi- 
cated programs, and you can modify the formulas to 
create customized .solutions; for more information, .see 
“Profe.s.sions and Industries.” 

Business Desk Accessories 

So many desk accessories are on the markei-.so 
many new' ones are released all the time-that it s im- 
possible to keep track of them all. However, a few- de- 
serve special mention. 

Borland’s SideKick is probably the most popular 
desk acce.ssory for the Mac. It functions as a rolodex 
with auto-dialer, notepad, outliner, spreadsheet, calen- 
dar, clock, simple file nianager, communications pro- 
gram, and print spooler. Each ofthe.se can be installed 
as a desk acce.ssory, and even if yc^u buy the program 
for one function, you have the others w'hen needed. 

Imagine Softw are’s Smart Alarms has become 
very popular. It’s basically a reminder acces.sory that 
can be u.sed for appointments, recurring events, or 
other types of activities. It’s u.seful for people w'ho 
have to manage their time carefully, as is Sofrview'’s 
Mac In Use time log. 

The key i.ssue of multiuser capability has begun to 
be addre.ssed; for more on this, see “Communications.” 
The market for Mac busine.ss .softw’are continues to 
grow' in diversity and competition, so be sure to pre- 
pare yourself before you chocxse a package. 

Steve Mann 



Tools for hantlUng numbers, 
mastering finances, and 
running an efficient enterprise 



Macworld 



179 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Accounting 


Acius, Inc. 


4D Runtime 


295.00 


4-pack. Allows use of custom 4th Dimension database. 
Req. 1MB. 


Baker Graphics 


BAKERForms Accounts Payable 


49.95 


Runs Microsoft Works. Preprinted checks; vendor YTD; 
bank reports. Req. 51 2K, BOOK drive.* 


Baker Graphics 


BAKERForms Accounts Receivable 


49.95 


Runs Microsoft Works. Preprinted invoices; statements; 
summary reports. Req. 51 2K, BOOK drive.* 


Baker Graphics 


BAKERForms for Payroll 


49.95 


Runs Microsoft Works. Preprinted checks; employee YTDs; 
weekly/biweekly payroll. Req. 512K, BOOK drive.* 


Baker Graphics 


BAKERForms for Purchasing 


49.95 


Runs Microsoft Works. Preprinted purchase orders; 
vendor YTD; total reports. Req. 51 2K, BOOK drive.* 


Chang Laboratories, Inc. 


General Business 3-Pak 


499.50 


3-module accounting: GL; AR; AP. Req. 512K. 


Chang Laboratories. Inc. 


Macintosh Professional 3-Pak 


649.50 


3-module accounting: GL; AP; Professional Billing. 
Req. 512K. 


Chang Laboratories, Inc. 


Rags to Riches 


199.95 


Integrated accounting. 5 separate modules: GL; AR; AP; I; 
Time-Billing Payroll. Req. 512K. $199.95 ea. 


Chang Laboratories. Inc. 


Retail 3-Pak 


649.50 


3-module accounting: GL; AP; 1. Req. 51 2K. 


CheckMark Software. Inc. 


AMS General Ledger 


195.00 


Full-featured, double-entry ledger system 
w/report generator. 


CheckMark Software, Inc. 


CheckMark MultiLedger 


395.00 


GL; AR; AP; 1. Prints checks, invoices. Usable w/CheckMark 
Payroll. Req. 512K.* 


CheckMark Software, Inc. 


CheckMark Payroll 


295.00 


Payroll w/tax calculation. Prints paychecks, earnings, 
check register, W-2s. Usable w/MulfiLedger. 


Circo Business Solutions 


Multiuser Desktop Accounting 


2495.00 


Integrated template: GL; AR; AP; SA; 1. Includes Omnis. 
2-5 users. Req. 512KE, hard disk. 1 user, $1795. 


Computer Associates/ 
BPI Systems. Inc. 


BPI General Accounting 


249.00 


GL w/subsidiary ledgers for payables, receivables, payroll. 
Exports to Jazz, Excel, Multiplan. Req. 512K. 


Digital Etc., Inc. 


Maccountant 


149.95 


GL w/AR, AP aging. 99 depts.; 11 reports w/financial 
ratios; 2000 accts. Req. ext. drive. 


Digital Etc., Inc. 


Turbo Maccountant 


495.00 


GL; AR; AP; 1; payroll; budgeting; statements; BOOO accts.; 
500 depts. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Great Plains Soltware, Inc. 


Great Plains Accounting Series 


695.00 


7 modules. Req. 51 2K, BOOK drive, Apple Hard Disk 20 or 
20SC. $695 ea. Purchase Order/Network Manager, $395. 


Great Plains Software. Inc. 


Great Plains Network Manager 


395.00 


Allows multiuse of Accounting Series. Req. Mac 512KE, 
AppleShare. 


Great Plains Software. Inc. 


Plain and Simple One-Write 
Accounting 


695.00 


Auto, one-write accounting. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Haba Systems 


Home Accountant 


59.95 


Personal accounting package. 


Lake Avenue Software 


The Assistant Controller Series 


495.00 


Modules: GL; AR; AP; JC; 1; OE/I; Payroll; Construction JC; 
Point of sale; more. Req. 512K, hard disk, McMax. $495 ea. 


Layered 


Insight 


595.00 


Modules: GL; AP; AR w/billing; analysis/interpretation. 
Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. $595 ea. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Microfinancial Corp. 


FLEXWARE 


795.00 


Integrated modules; AP; AR; GL; 1C; JC; Payroll; 
Processing. To 5 users. Reg. 51 2K, hard disk. $795 ea. 


Microsystems 
Consulting, Inc. 


Microsystems 


595.00 


Modules: AR; AP; 1C; JC; 1. Req. 1MB, hard disk. 
$595 ea. up. Contractors’ versions avail. 


Migent Software, Inc, 


In-House Accountant 


149.00 


Search/edit; text styling; financial formulas; report 
functions. Req. 512K. 


Monogram 


Dollars and Sense 


149.95 


Starting templates. Usable w/Forecast tax planner. 
Records assets, labilities, income, expenses, checks. 
Mac 128K to Mac Plus. 


Peachtree Software L.P. 


Back to Basics Accounting System 


199.00 


Entry-level GL, AR, AP. Req. ext. drive, 80-column printer. 


Personal Training Systems 


MasterWorks Series 


49.95 


Sell-paced 90 min. tutorials for Microsoft Works, 
Audiocassete, disk. Req. 51 2K. 


REMS Software 


REMS Investor 2000 


395.00 


Multiyear cash-flow projections; IRR; EMRR. 
Current tax law. Req. 51 2K. 


SBT Corp. 


SBT Database Accounting Library 


100.00 


Modules for dBMAN or McMax. Includes DBMS 
source code. $100-$395 ea. 


Sierra On-Line, Inc. 


MacOneWrite 


89,95 


3-module pegboard: CD; AR; GL. Req. 51 2K. 
Separately, $59.95 ea. 


Softsync, Inc. 


Accountant, Inc. 


299.95 


Integrated GL, AR, AP, 1. Req. 512K, 800K drive.’ 


Softsync, Inc. 


Personal Accountant 


49.95 


Double-entry bookkeeping for personal/small bus. use. 


Software Bridge, Inc. 


Payroll-Bridge 


495.00 


Tax/deduction; hourly/salaried. Prints checks, W-2s, 
reports. Req. 512K, ext. drive. 


Software Products Division 


Accounting Modules for Dmnis 


195.00 


Modules: AR; AP; DE; Payroll Checks; IPDs; GL. 
$195 ea.; unlocked, $395 ea. 


Vertical Business 
Software,lnc. 


General Ledger/Accounts Payable 


500.00 


Double-entry GL/AP. Prints checks. Use w/Retailer/ 
Wholesaler. Req. 512K, hard disk, ImageWriter. 


Western Software 
Associates 


Time Saver Payroll 


75.00 


Payroll: salaried, hourly, commissions. Tax tables; reports. 
Prints W-2s. Req. Excel. 


WOS Data Systems. Inc. 


WDS Fund Accounting System 


5995.00 


GL; AR; Budgeting; PD voucher; Payroll. Req. 512K, 
hard disk. Avail, w^ AR for $4995. 


WOS Data Systems, Inc. 


WDS/CTB/McGraw-Hill 
Fund Accounting 


5995.00 


Allows data sharing on AppleShare. GL; PD voucher; payroll; 
billing. Req. 512K. 


Business Forms 


1st Desk Systems 


IstSCAN 


295.00 


Auto, form generator/data-entry system. Req. 51 2K. 


Fine Grove Ltd. 


Point 'n' Click 


295.00 


Inventory/invoicing system. Req. 1MB, ext. drive. 


Megahaus 


MegaForm 


295.00 


Form generator w/database. Prints data/forms. 
Req. 51 2K. ext. drive. 


New Directions Software 


FastForms Construction Kit 


149.00 


Form generator. Fills out/prints forms. Req. 512K. 


Silicon Beach Software 


Silicon Press 


79.95 


Label/form program w/graphics, merge printing. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Spectrum Digital Systems 


TrueForm 


1995.00 


Completion of existing forms, manually or merged 
w/database. Full spreadsheet functionality. 
Includes scanner. Req. 51 2K. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


uataoase Management 


1st Desk Systems 


IstFILE 


195.00 


Programmable relational database. Formerly IstBASE. 


1st Desk Systems 


IstMERGE 


150.00 


Mail-merge list manager. Sorts; finds; creates 
personalized mailings. 


1st Desk Systems 


IstTEAM 


795.00 


Multiuser IstFILE. Req. 512K. 


Acius, Inc. 


4lh Dimension 


695.00 


Multiuser. Object-oriented graphics; 
programming language. Req. 1MB.* 


Ashton-Tate 


dBASE Mac 


495.00 


Relational database; procedural language; turnkey appins. 
Req. 512K, 800K ext. drive. 


Blyth Sottware, Inc. 


Omnis Express 


99.00 


Speeds development of Omnis appins. Req. 512K. 


Blyth Software, Inc. 


Omnis 3 Plus 


575.00 


160MB capacity. Multiuser versions for networks. 
Req. 512K.‘ 


Borland International, Inc. 


Rellex 


99.95 


Relational database w/spreadsheet functions. Sort; 
import/export. Req. 51 2K.* 


Brock Software 
Products, Inc. 


BROCK KEYSTROKE Advanced/ 
Dala-Encripted Version 


149.00 


Relational dalabase/report generator. Req. 51 2K. 


Brock Software 
Products, Inc. 


BROCK KEYSTROKE Filer 


49.95 


Filer-database program. 


Brock Software 
Products, Inc. 


BROCK KEYSTROKE Relational 
Database & Report Generator 


99.00 


Relational dalabase/report generator. Req. 512K. 


Chang Laboratories, Inc. 


C.A.T. 


399.95 


Relational database. Contacts; activity; lime. Req. 512K. 


Forethought, Inc. 


FileMaker 


195.00 


Form-oriented database. 


Forethought, Inc. 


FileMaker Plus 


295.00 


Form-oriented database. Req. 51 2K. 800K drive. 


Flaba Systems 


MacRelax 


99.95 


Personal database. Req. 51 2K. 


Marvelin Corporation 


Business Filevision 


395.00 


Graphic database/visual filing. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Marvelin Corporation 


Filevision 


195.00 


Visual filing for Mac 128K to Mac SE. 


Microfinancial Corp. 


FLEXWARE APPLICATIONS 
DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM 


1000.00 


DBMS; program generator; report writer. Req. 512K, 
hard disk. To $2795. 


Microsoft Corp. 


Microsoll File 


195.00 


DBMS. Reconfigures files; creates report formats for 
data files. 


Nantucket Corp. 


McMax 


295.00 


DBMS. Allows dBASE use on Mac 512K to Mac SE. Menu- 
driven/interactive-command modes. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Odesta Corp. 


Double Helix II 


595.00 


Relational dalabase/appins. developer. 
Req. 1MB, hard disk. 


Odesta Corp. 


Helix Multiuser Kit 


300.00 


Multiuser network for DH II. 1 host/3 other nodes. Needs no 
file server. Req. hard disk for host, 512K for guests. 


Odesta Corp. 


Helix Multiuser System 


795.00 


Multiuser relational database. Includes DH 11/Helix Multiuser 
Kit. Req. 1MB, hard disk for host, 51 2K for guests. 


ProVUE Development 


OverVUE 


295.00 


Relational database w/spreadsheet capabilities. 


Software Discoveries, Inc. 


RecordHolderPlus 


69.95 


Data manager w/color, graphics. Prints text/graphics on 
ImageWriler II. 



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Vendor 


Proiluct 


Price 


Notes 


Visionary Electronics, Inc. 


Time Wand Manager 


489.00 


Relational database w/ability to import/export 
ASCII text files. Req. 51 2K. 


Working Computer 


Business.TOOLS 


299.95 


Omnis3 Plus techniques, tricks, theory for business 
problems. Req. 800K drive. 


WOS Data Systems, Inc. 


WOSbase 


495.00 


Multiuser relational database. Use w/WOS Fund Accounting. 
Req. 512K, hard disk. 1 user, $195. 


Desk Accessories 


Affinity Microsystems, Inc. 


AffiniFile 


79.95 


Access to notes/graphics via built-in index. To 5000 words 
per topic; 1000-2000 topics. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh Switcher 
Construction Kit. 


19.95 


Allows user to switch/transfer data bet. appins. 
w/o returning to Finder. Req. 51 2K. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


MacroMaker 


call 


Assigns text strings or menu commands to single key or 
key combination. 


Blyth Software, Inc. 


SmartPad 


39.95 


DA database. Req. 51 2K. 


Borland International Ltd. 


Sidekick 


99.95 


Calculator; calendar; outliner; auto-dialer; phone log; more. 
Req. 512K. 


Brainpower, Inc. 


Graphidex 


124.95 


Graphics; indexing; retrieval; editing. Online graphics 
retrieval. Creates custom fonts. Req. 51 2K. 


CE Software 


Calendar Maker 


39.95 


Creates presentation-quality calendars. Outputs to MacPaint 
or PICT files; imports from many appins. 


CE Software 


DiskTop 


49.95 


Finder functions; launch/shutdown. LaserStatus; Laser info.; 
font download/PostScript. Req. 512KE. 


CE Software 


MockPackage.Plus 


35.00 


MockWrite; MockPrinter;. MockTerminal; MockChart. 
EZ-Menu. "Phantom, finger." 


CE Software 


QuickKeys 


99.95 


Assigns actions to keys; strings keystrokes into sequences. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Cortland Computer 


TopDesk 


59.95 


Macro program; BackPrint; Touch-n-Go; Blank; MenuKey; 
Encrypt; Launch. Req. 51 2K. 


Cortland Computer 


Touch-n-Go 


39.00 


Macro program. Req. 51 2K. 


Deneba Software 


CANVAS DA 


99.95 


Integrates MacPaint/MacDraw in a DA. 


Educomp Computer Services 


Muscle 


39.95 


Free-form database organizer. Access by index or word. 


Educomp Computer Services 


QuickLabeler 


19.95 


Prints program icons, disk directories, and user-defined 
labels on ImageWriter. 


Efectronic Arts 


Battery Pak 


49.95 


Daylimer; date keeper; note pad. 


Electronic Arts 


HomePak 


49.95 


Word processor; info, manager; telecom, home terminal. 


Electronic Arts 


TimeLink 


49.95 


Electronic diary/planner. 


EnterSet 


QuickSet 


49.00 


Calculator; calendar; note filer; phone dialer; spooler; 
encrypter. 


Greene, Inc. 


QuickDEX 


35.00 


Name/address organizer. 


Haba Systems 


Habadex 


99.95 


Desktop organizer. Req. 512K. 


Harvard Associates 


DeskToppers 


19.95 


Various DAs. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Imagine Software 


Smart Alarms/Appt. Diary 


49.95 


On-screen reminders at specified limes; appt. diary. 

Req. 512K. Multiuser version, $149.95 plus $10 per node. 


Layered 


Front Desk 


149.00 


Time mgt./billing for professionals. Req. 51 2K.* 


Microlytics 


Word Finder 


59.95 


Thesaurus w/1 5,000 key words, 22,000 syns. 
Use w/MaeWrite, Word, others. 


Olduvai Software, Inc. 


DA-Switcher 


39.95 


Allows unlimited number of DAs by switching under 
Apple menu. Req. 51 2K. 


Olduvai Software, Inc. 


Icon-lt! 


79.95 


Places icon bar in any appin. 


Peripheral Computers & 
Supplies, Inc. 


EUREKA! 


24.95 


File locater for hard disks. Req. 512K. 


Shana Enterprises 


UserGuide 


79.00 


Allows nonprogrammers to implement online help. 
Supports texl/graphics. Req. 51 2K. 


SoftView, Inc. 


MacInUse 


79.00 


Tracks Mac use. Records appin. use, data, other input. 


Solutions, Inc. 


SmartScrap & The Clipper 


59.95 


Improves Scrapbook w/table of contents; cropping/ 
scaling tool. Req. 51 2K. 


Working Software, Inc. 


Findswell 


49.95 


Document finder/opener. Shows date/time last used, size, 
program. Req. 512K. 


Financial Management 


Button-down Software 


Profits! 


495.00 


Charting/analysis of stocks, commodities, mutual funds. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Comvest, tnc. 


MacTrust/MacBank 


295.00 


Strategy lor obtaining $100,000 unsecured loan. 
Book/audiotapes. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Dow Jones & Co.. Inc. 


Dow Jones Market Analyzer 


299.00 


Tech, stock market analysis. Tracks indiv. stocks/market. 
Req. 51 2K, 800K drive, modem. 


Dow Jones & Co., Inc. 


Dow Jones Market Manager Plus 


249.00 


Portfolio management/analysis; tax info. Req. ext. drive. 
Straight Talk. 


Electronic Arts 


Financial Cookbook 


19.95 


Personal-investment planner. "What if scenarios. 


Electronic Arts 


Isgur Portfolio System 


199.95 


Investment-portfolio planner. Req. 512K. 


GenMicronics 


Financial Decisions 


45.00 


112 Excel templates. Appraisals; bonds; investments; 
mortgages; sales; more. $45 ea. 


Innovative Software 


MacCheck 


39.95 


Home accounting. Time; money; budgets; database; reports. 


JLC Software, Inc. 


OPTUM-3 


699.95 


Integrated financial planning for professionals. Req. 51 2K. 


Larry Rosen Co. 


Financial Management Templates 


89.00 


Templates for Excel, Jazz, or Multiplan. Bond Analyzer; 
Financial and Interest Calculator; 

Investment IRR Analysis. $89 ea. 


Micro Trading 
Software, Ltd. 


Wall Street Watcher 


250.00 


Stock charting. Cycles/trend-line; stock-quote retrieval; 
more. Req. 512K. 


Monogram 


Dollars and Sense 


149.95 


Personal/small bus. financial mgt. Use w/Forecast. 


Monogram 


Monogram Exporter 


15.95 


Allows Dollars and Sense users to export data to text tiles. 


Options-80 


Options-80A 


170.00 


Analyzes buying/selling of listed put and call options, 
spreads, shares. 


Pro Plus Software, Inc. 


Market Pro 


395.00 


Integrated investment-portfolio mgt./analysis. Req. 512K. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Pro Plus Software. Inc. 


Market Pro Commodities 
Analysis Package 


195.00 


Integrated investment analysis for commodities. 


Simon & Schuster 


Jake Lasser's Your Money Manager 


99.95 


Financial management for home or small bus. 


Smith Micro Software, Inc. 


Market Link 


85.00 


Unattended access to Dow Jones/The Source. Retrieves 
quotes/bridges to Excel. Req. 512K, 

Hayes-compatible modem. 


Smith Micro Sottware. Inc. 


Stock Portfolio System 


225.00 


Portfolio mgt. 14 reports on stocks, bonds, options, 
mutual funds. Req. 512K. 


Strategic Planning System 


Masterpiece 


3500,00 


Financial planning and office mgt. for professionals. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Survivor Software. Ltd. 


MacMoney 


74.95 


Financial record keeper. Req. 51 2K. 


Viking Technologies, Inc. 


Loan Calculator 


15.95 


Calculates payments, rates, principal, interest. 
Compares loans. 


WOS Data Systems 


Detente Reports 


189.50 


Creates reports from dBASE III, Fund Accounting, 
Smart Software. Req. 51 2K. 


Mailing Lists 


1st Desk Systems 


IstMERGE 


150.00 


Mail merge/list mgr. 


Pecan Software Systems 


MailManager 


99.95 


Generates/maintains mailing lists. 


Satori Software 


Bulk Mailer 


149.00 


1- to 4-across labels, roster format. Up to 8600 names. 
Merge w/Word. Req. 512K.‘ 


Software Discoveries, Inc. 


MergeWrite 


49.95 


Mail merge for MacWrite/Record Holder Plus. Use alone or 
w/DBMS. Req. 51 2K, MacWrife. 


Marketing/Sales 


AnaMatrix, Inc. 


POS-IM 


3000.00 


Maintains inventory from sales history; creates POs. Req. 
51 2K, bar code reader, 20MB hard disk. 


Applied Micronetics 


Office Productivity System 


475.00 


Billing; invoicing; productivity reports; budget/cost 
tracking; more. Req. 51 2K, ext. disk. 


Breakthrough Productions 


Market Master 


275.00 


Processes sales leads w/follow-up. Personalized letters; 
scripts; mailings. Req. 512KE. 


Julian Systems, Inc. 


Automated Management System 


call 


Telemarketing sales/product analysis. Tracks inventory, 
receivables, commissions. 


Julian Systems, Inc. 


Automated Telemarketing System 


call 


Phone/database/information analysis; merge-letter 
generation; operator-performance tracking. 


Julian Systems, Inc. 


MacGallery 


call 


Art gallery mgt. Tracks art pieces, histories, customers. 


Julian Systems, Inc. 


MacJewel 


call 


Jewelry store inventory mgt. point of sale. Tracks pieces, 
histories, customers. 


Layered 


Front Desk 


149.00 


Time mgt./billing. Req. 512K.* 


Software Complement 


Client/Mac 


99.00 


Sales/lead-lracking system. Mail merge; follow-up 
capability; time management. Req. Omnis 3 Plus, 512K.’ 


Software Complement 


P-O-S/Mac 


995.00 


Multiuser point of sale software. Invoices; credit/debit 



tracking; AR; inventory w/commission. 



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are first-class business machines. 

But what kind orhusiness you actually 
i>et down to has as much to do with the 
lieripherals you attach as it does thecom- 
puter it.seIf.Take mass storay>e. For many 
companies, .serious husine.ss means nothiiif{ 
less than It) me,t>ahy tes ol primary capacity 
and at least ane(|ual amount of backup — 
ideally in the same subsystem packay^e. 

•A lew packai»es do exist with those 
specilicatimis. Hut the price lai{s are abso- 
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like the competition ), you get backup you 
can lock up for security and. thanks to total 
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tors, and specialty retailers rely on the 
common pmcedure of processing lists 
of clients, patients, memlx?rs, or cus- 
tomers and communicating with the 
world through form letters and bills. 
Software developers for personal com- 
puters have automated many of the of- 
lice functions of such gixDups, using 
database and word processing technol- 
ogy. The busy professionals who use these pmgrams in- 
.si.si that they simplify common tasks without intraducing 
new problems in operating the computer. 

With its visual user interface, the Macintosh ex- 
cels at offering an easy-to-learn, intuitive system. Basic 
applications like word processing take only a few min- 
utes to learn, and streamlined professional applica- 
tions for the day-to-day chores of numerous businesses 
have now appeared on the market. 




Professions 
and Industries 



The Professional Look 

Mac software is available for managing nearly ev- 
ery type of professional activity. The mainstream cate- 
gories that were developed first are now represented 
by scores of office-management programs. While many 
of these are quite similar from a programming view- 
point, the crucial factor is how' effectively they are cus- 
tomized to their users’ particular needs. 

On the market are programs that track lawyers’ 
hours and bill for them; update a medical office s in- 
ventory and patient records; and offer ways of analvT:- 
ing, for investment and tax purposes, the profitability 
of a real estate holding. You can buy appli- 
cations that focus on one aspect of a busi- 
ness or a larger package that integrates 
several tasks. In addition, such highly 
specialized businesses as a horse farm 
{MacIIorse), a lawn-care business {Mac 
\VeecL\Ian\ or a union local {Union Dues 
Manager) can be run on a Mac. 

Businesses that thrive on good mail- 
ing-list management are especially well 
supplied with Mac software. Special appli- 
cations for retail businesses, professional 
sales offices, collection agencies, video 
rental stores, and churches automate the 
most tiresome chores in these areas and 
improve tracking of prospects. Detailed 
catalogs of special jiurpose software are 
also available from several sources: good 
examples are Blyth Software’s directory of 
business programs that use Omnis3 Plus and Heizer 
Software’s catalog of templates iov Microsoft Excel. 

The major products in this area differ more in fo- 
cus than in actual capabilities. Blyth emphasizes its 
qualified developers and authorized development cen- 
ters as sources of custom database applications. Ode- 
sta, maker of Double Helix, is actively involved in 
connectivity between the Mac and DEC’S VAX environ- 



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meni. 4th Dimension has an edge in features like 
graphics fields, complex file structures, and the ability 
to build very Mac-like turnkey applications. 

Different Origins 

Professional software for vertical markets tends 
to come from a specialized group that uses tools spe- 
cific to a task. Rather than being a full-time program- 
mer, the author of real estate software, for example, 
may be a real estate consultant who has developed a 
custom application using a popular database in.stead of 
a traditional programming language. 

Thus, most programs for vertical markets use a 
database as a programming language, since list man- 
agement is the heart of the applications. Many of the 
software packages in this .section “run under" the 
databases OmniSy Helix, I'ileVision, or 4th Dimen- 
sion', the package needs one ofthe.se databa.ses in ei- 
ther a full or an application-only {run-time) version. If 
you own the databa.se, you can then modify the appli- 
cation package after you buy it, wiiile if you use the aj*)- 
plication with a run-time version of the database, you 
are constrained to the developers* designs. In this 
unique development environment, upgrades that 
make the programs faster and more powerful may be 
produced by improvements in both the overall appli- 
cation and tlie particular customized database. 

Picking a Package 

Three key points are worth .serious consideration 
in evaluating professional applications software. If you 
bu\' a word processor and decide you don’t like it, 
chances are \'ou can buy a different one and convert all 
your old files. However, if you buy an inventory manag- 
er and find it too slow or too limited to handle your 
store, most likely you will have to start over at substan- 
tial cost and inconvenience. Insi.st on a comprehensive, 
hands-on demonstration of any software that’s going to 
be at the center of your office life for years to come. 

■ Price: Many of these programs are expensive, 
relative to other Mac software. The developers fre- 
quently feel that they have produced .something t^f 
great value to a restricted market and therefore must 
set higher prices to recover their own investment in 
time. A $4000 program that straightens out a law of- 
fice s billings may be a bargain, but a $20 sales tracker 
that “forgets” leads is too expensive. Fortunately, near- 
ly all Mac .software requires little training-any product 
that scores well on the next two points will pay for it- 
self in a few months at most. 

■ Completeness: Before you evaluate any .soft- 
ware, make a li.st on paper of the information you think 
you need to track in your business (you might want 
.sketch out a few sample forms). Then make sure that 
tlie .software you are considering can handle all the 
data you have listed. If it can’t-.some packages offer 
fairly restricted data structures-you can expect prob- 
lems down the road. You may be able to pass on some 
chores, like word processing, to other software, but be 
very demanding about the central record-handling 



part of a professional application. 

■ Speed: A point that might not occur to you 
while watching a demonstration is the pro.spect of per- 
formance slowdown by the software with large sets of 
records. The typical Mac (512K, Plus, or SE) is intrin- 
sically a fast machine, but its CPU's hands are busy 
painting all those user-friendly screens for you. This 
means that .some applications may look magnificent on 
little 20-record demo data sets but can slow to an unac- 
ceptable craw l when w’orking with real-world lists of 
several hundred clients or cus- 
tomers. Insist on a softw^are 
demonstration that involves as 
much data as you are likely to 
handle in your own activities. 

Since the developers of 
these programs often ask $1000 
or more for .some documenta- 
tion and a disk or tw'o, you have 
the right to demand more up- 
front information than is given 
for simple utilitie.s. Ask the ven- 
dor for a li.st of .satisfied customers and call at least 
three of them-they’re usually glad to comment on the 
strengths and weaknesses of each application from 
months of firsthand experience. 

What’s Next? 

We can expect higher speed and better integra- 
tion of graphics. Most applications written for vertical 
markets are getting faster: the database programs have 
been recoded for increased speed, and SEs and Mac 
I Is make former!}^ poky programs scoot along 40 to 
200 percent faster. Also, more programs are imitating 
the revolutionary database graphics pioneered by File- 
vision, .so you can expect w^ll-designed text-plus- 
graphics screens to appear in most vertical-market 
.software in the next few years. This is good news, 
since it means that friendly programs that respond as 
fast as you can point will be available to support most 
business activities. Although the Mac took a few* years 
to penetrate many of these markets, there is no doubt 
that it is here to stay. 

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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Engineering and Science 








Automatix, Inc. 


Al 90 


8000.00 


Factory computer. Compatible w/Mac II. $8000 up. 


Bishop Graphics CAD 
Systems Corp. 


Gerber Aperture 
Assignment Software 


150.00 


Assigns Gerber photoplotter apertures for Bishop CAM 
network media conversion/photoplotting. Req. 51 2K, 

QC 30000 or QC 30007. 


Bishop Graphics CAD 
Systems Corp. 


Gerber Output 


250.00 


Outputs Quik Circuit design file to photoplotter. Req. 512K, 
QC 30000 or QC 30007. 


BioPac Systems 


MacPacq 


995.00 


Mac functions as digital oscilloscope, chart recorder, 
waveform generator. Req. 51 2K. 


Brainpower, Inc. 


DesignScope 


249.95 


Analog/digital system-level design simulator. Osciltoscopes; 
VC filters; PLL; VCO; FFTs; text import/export. Req. 512K. 


Cambridge 
Electronics, Inc. 


Data Acquisition System 


call 


Graphic environment for data aquisition/display, analysis, 
reporls. Req. 51 2K. Price varies. 


Capilano Computing 
Systems, Ltd. 


LogieWorks with Utilities 


199.95 


Digital-circuit design. Schematics/simulations: library; info, 
utilities; more. Req. 512K.* 


ComVest, Inc. 


Mac R.C.S. 


495.00 


Residential conservation software for energy evaluation. 
Estimates; JC. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Engineering 

Programming Concepts 


Engineer's Aide 


695.00 


Integrated standalone package for process engineers. 
Req. 512K.‘ 


Erez Anzel Software 


BEAM MAC 


145.00 


Structural analysis w/design aids for simple beams. Any 
number of loads; up to four nodes. Req. 512K. 


Erez Anzel Software 


BEAM MAC II 


345.00 


Structural analysis w/design aids for conlinuous/simple 
beams. Any number of nodes, hinges, loads. Req. 512K. 


Erez Anzel Software 


FRAME MAC 


595.00 


Structural analysis w/design aids for 2-D frames, trusses, 
beams. Any number of nodes, restraints, hinges, loads. 
Req. 512K. 


Erez Anzel Software 


MacCOGO 


145.00 


Precise dimensions, area, moment of inertia. 3-window 
display. Req. 512K. 


GW Instruments 


MacADIOS 


2500.00 


Dala-acquisition hardware/software. Req. 51 2K. 


1C Sensors, Inc. 


SENSORBUSSB2004 


180.00 


Modules. Analog input; digital output; relay output. $180 ea. 
Req. serial cable. Thermocouple input module, $370. 


IDAC, Inc. 


MACONTROL 


695.00 


Data acquisition. Collects/processes/interprets analog 
digital signals. Lab-instrument control. Req. 51 2K.’ 


Metaresearch, Inc. 


BenchTop Series 


630.00 


Data acquisition/control for physics, medicine, psychology. 


microneering 


BOLTS 


645.00 


Finite-element analysis of US Standards bolts. Req. 51 2K, 
800K drive. 


microneering 


SAMBAS 


4500.00 


Finite-element structural analysis of mullibody axial- 
symmetric solid objects or multibody 2-D objects. Req. 
51 2K, 800K drive. 


microneering 


THREADS 


745.00 


Finite-element analysis of std. threaded-connector 
configurations. Req. 51 2K, 800K drive. 


National Instruments Corp. 


LabVIEW 


1995.00 


Graphic programming for instrument control, dala- 
acquisition/analysis appins. Req. 1MB. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Probability Distribution 


Spectral Analysis 


75.00 


Forward/inverse transform; power spectrum; more. Graphs 
the series and its transform. Prints graphs, tables. 

Mac 128K to Mac SE. 


Remote Measurement 
Systems 


ADC-1 


449.00 


RS-232 peripheral for lab/industrial/home monitoring. 
Software sensors, $45. 


Satori Software 


Project Billing 


695.00 


Tracks time, expenses, project costs for engineering 
projects. Req. 51 2K.* 


Strawberry Tree Computers 


Analog Connection 


595.00 


Data-acquisition board for lab/factory. Chromatography; 
precision temperature/weighing. Req. 1MB. Avail, for SE/II. 
Price varies. 


Strawberry Tree Computers 


Analog Connection WorkBench 


495.00 


Data acquisifion/control; data logging; display for 
Mac SE/II. Req. 1MB, Analog Connection. 


Tecmar, Inc. 


Lab Master II 


1250.00 


Data-acquisition/process-control system for Mac II. 


The MacNeal 
Schwendler Corp. 


MSC/pal 


1495.00 


Finite-element stress/vibration analysis of structures, 
mechanical components. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Vamp, Inc. 


McCAD EDS-1 


1495.00 


Electronic design for Mac II. Schematics; printed-circuit 
board; digital-circuit simulation.* 


Vamp, Inc. 


McCAD-Gerber View/Translator 


895.00 


Translates Gerber files to McCAD database for 
editing/revision. Req. 51 2K (suggest 1MB). 


Vamp, Inc. 


McCAD-Schematics 


495.00 


Electronic schematic-design package. Built-in library editor; 
3 kinds of bussing. Req. 512K. 


Legal 


ComVest, Inc. 


Macinc 


199.00 


Self-incorporation/corporate-records template for Excel. 
Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. Lawyer's version, $299. 


Nolo Press 


WillWriler 


49.95 


Helps create valid will. Q & A format; estate-planning 
manual. Req. ImageWriter-compatible. 


Satori Software 


Legal Billing II 


895.00 


Time accounting/billing. ABA approved. Req. 512K.‘ 


Working Software, Inc. 


Spellswell Legal Dictionary 


99.95 


Legal dictionary lor Spellswell. 20,000 words. Req. 512K, 
ext. drive. 


Mathematics and Statistics 


Borland International, Inc. 


Eureka: The Solver 


295.00 


Equations; trigonometry; exponential, stat., financial 
functions. Req. 51 2K. 


Brainpower, Inc. 


MathView Prolessional 


249.95 


Numerical analysis; multidimensional function evaluation; 
2-D/3-D plotting; matrix operations; more. Req. 51 2K, 
BOOK drive. 


Brainpower, Inc. 


StatView 512+ 


349.95 


Graphic stat.-analysis/data-handling package. Charts; 
graphs; more. Req. 51 2K, BOOK drive. 


Clear Lake Research 


CLR ANOVA 


75.00 


Stat. analysis of variants. 


Cricket Software 


StatWorks 


125.00 


1- and 2-way ANOVA; T-tests; correlation coefficients; 
cross-tabulation; normality tests. 


Data Description, Inc. 


Data Desk Professional 


175.00 


Stat./graphics w/desktop interface. Req. 51 2K, 800K drive. 


Design Science 


MathType 


149.00 


Incorporates math equations into word processing/deskfop 
publishing documents via Clipboard. Req. 51 2K. 



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Product 


Price 


Notes 


High Performance Systems 


STELLA Software 


295.00 


Simulation/modeling for bus. Icon-driven model construction 
Req. 512K. 


IDAC, Inc. 


WormStat 


19.95 


Slat, for lab, industry, classroom. Mean sId, deviation; 
histogram; median range; regression; tests. 


Industrial Computations. Inc. 


PowerMalh 


100.00 


Simple algebra to complicated calculus. 


Logiciel/Eustat 


STAT80 


249.00 


Simple descriptive slat, to hypothesis testing. Req. 51 2K, 
800K drive. Professional version, $399. 


NCSS 


NCSS-MAC 


49.00 


Multiple regression; ANOVA; cross-tabulation; T-tests; 
principal components; nonparemetric tests; univariate slat. 
Req. 512K, ext. drive. 


Software lor 

Recognition Technologies 


MacEqn 


44.95 


Equation-processing DA. Creates complex equations, 
PICT files. 


StatSoft, Inc. 


GANOVA 


99.00 


General univariate/multivariate analysis of variance. 


StatSoft, Inc. 


MacSS 


245.00 


Stat. integrated w/statistical DBMS/graphics. Req. 51 2K. 


StatSoft, Inc. 


STATFAST 


119.00 


Descriptive stat.; T-lests; correlations; cross-tabulation; 
charts; plots; more. 


Structural Measurement 
Systems 


Parameter Manager 


495.00 


Manages/analyzes/graphs time, date, sample-based data 
tor trend plots, histograms, forecasts. 


Systal, Inc. 


DESIGN 


90.00 


Sample size estimation; tables of expected mean squares for 
balanced experiments; more. Req. 51 2K. 


Systat, Inc. 


LOGIT 


90.00 


Full multinomial logit model for binary or mullicalegory- 
dependent variables. Req. 51 2K. 


Systaf, Inc. 


PROBIT 


90.00 


Estimates multiple regression models; analysis of covarianfs. 
Req. 512K. 


Systat, Inc. 


SYSTAT 


595.00 


Sfal./graphics/data-mgt. package. 51 2K. 


Systaf, Inc. 


TESTAT 


90.00 


Test-summary slat.; reliability coefficients; sld. errors of 
measurement; item analysis. Req. 51 2K. 


Systat. Inc. 


TOBIT 


90.00 


Regression analysis; parameter estimates; covariant 
matrices; predicted-value residuals; mills ratios; more. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Medical and Dental 


CMA Microcomputer 


CMA Dental/ 

Medical for the Macintosh 


1295.95 


Patient receivables; claim-form prep.; diagnoses-mgt. 
system. Req. 51 2K, hard disk. 


Harvard Medical School 
Decision Systems Laboratory 


HeartLab 


149.00 


Simulation. Teaches cardial auscultation. Sound filter; 
headphones. Req. 51 2K. 


Julian Systems. Inc. 


Julian Medical Office Management 


call 


Medical/dental/opfometric record-keeping, billing, 
patient tracking. 


Orthodontic Processing 


Quick Ceph 


895.00 


X-ray evaluation; cephalometric analysis; treatment 
simulation. Req. 512KE. Digitizer, $895; upgrade, $195. 


Unicom Software 
Development Group 


Medical Office Manager 


2750.00 


Maintains billings, demographics, records. Adapts to new 
insurance forms/regulations. Req. 51 2K. 


Working Software, Inc. 


Medical Dictionary for Spellswell. 


99.95 


Medical; dental; psychiatric; veterinary; pharmaceutical 
drugs: chemical/drug trade names. 35,000 words. 

Req. Spellswell. 



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Vendor 



Product 



Price 



Notes 



Real Estate/Property Management 


ComVest, Inc. 


Macinvest Plus 


595.00 


Contracts/oflers; investment analysis; investment mgl. 
Avail, separately. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


ComVest. Inc. 


MacMortgage 


149.00 


Computes accelerated payments to build equity, savings. 
Req. 512K, ext. drive. Professional version, $199. 


HMS Computer Company 


Mortage Loan Calculator 


129.00 


Qualifies buyers. Required income or maximum loan. 
Computes taxes/amortization. Req. 51 2K. 


HMS Computer Company 


Prospect Closing System 


595.00 


For home builders/residential developers. Req. 51 2K. 


HMS Computer Company 


Prospect Tracking System 


595.00 


Tracks sales. Includes Omnis 3 Runtime. Req. 512K. 


MacLord Systems, Inc. 


Property Management 


1295.00 


Residential/commercial properties. Accounting: budgeting; 
operations; more. Multiuser version avail. 


Technalysis Services 


ProAnalysis 


295.00 


Investment analysis. Req. 51 2K. 


Unicom Softiware 
Development Group 


Building Permit Manager 


990.00 


Slores/prints building, plumbing, electrical-permit data. 
Generates fee reports. Req. 51 2K. 


YARDI Systems, Inc. 


Advanced Property Management 


795.00 


Automated commercial/residential property mgt. 400 units 
per folder. Req. 51 2K. 


YARDI Systems. Inc. 


Basic Property Management 


395.00 


Automated residential property mgt. 400 units per folder. 
Req. 512K. 


YARDI Systems, Inc. 


Deluxe Properly Management 


1195.00 


Automated property mgt. for condominium assns., storage 
units, etc. 1000 units per folder. Req. 51 2K.* 


YARDI Systems, Inc. 


Property Management 


395.00 


Comprehensive mgt. package. Investment Analysis, $245. 


YARDI Systems, Inc. 


Toolkit 


245.00 


Investment Analysis. Req. 51 2K. 







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t one time, the scope of word pro- 
cessing was limited to manipu- 
lating words. The grapliics orien- 
tation of the Macintosh, however, 
has expanded word processing 
horizons. The integration of 
graphics with text in a variety of 
fonts, sizes, and styles was the first 
step toward desktop publishing. 
Initially considered separate appli- 
cations, word processing and page 
layout are now moving toward a common goal- 
publishing finished documents. 

For serious desktop publishing, you probably 
need both a word processor and a page-makeup pro- 
gram. Since the Mac II and SE opened up the field, 
developers have been working to blend these tw'o 
applications. Meanwhile, Mac publishing grows more 
and more competitive. 

Word Processing 

If your needs are limited to writing letters and 
memos, you may be satisfied with a basic word pro- 
cessing program such as MacWrite, or one with more 
features like WriteNow\ which has a spelling checker 
and shows multiple columns on screen; ov MindWrite, 
which offers a built-in outlining function. 

However, these programs lack the breadth of fea- 
tures found at the high end of the market. 
For heavy-duty word processing needs-for 
example, if you create, edit, and reformat 
large documents, or need a table of con- 
tents or index-you may want to consider 
Microsoft Word 3.0, LaserAuthor, or one of 
the upcoming new products. While these 
programs normally take some effort to 
master, they return the investment with a 
myriad of additional capabilities to facili- 
tate writing, editing, and formatting docu- 
ments. Such additional features are a 
significant convenience if you do frequent, 
complex word processing. 

In the high-end category, Word 5.0 
(with its upgrade, 3.01) is the reigning 
champion. However, several competitive programs are 
ready for release, including WordPerfect, a Mac ver- 
sion of the most popular word processing program for 
IBM PCs and compatibles, and FullWrite Professiotial 
from Ann Arbor Softworks, makers of the popular 
graphics program FullPaint. 

Desktop Publishing 

If your formatting needs are substantial, a desktop 
publishing program is probably what you need. The 
original front-runner in the field is Aldus’s PageMaker, 
but new programs, especially Ready, Set,Go! \evs\ov\ 4 
from Letraset, are challenging its dominance. The in- 
novative XPress from Quark was first to bring color 
makeup to the Mac, and Interleaf’s new package offers 
minicomputer power for about $8000. Each offers a 





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few unique concepts and features, but all provide the 
ability to mix text and graphics in a paste-up 
environment. 

The available desktop publishing programs are 
less easily distinguishable from each other than word 
processors are. While some strengths and weaknesses 
are apparent, they are fighting for position in basically 
the same market. As with word processing, determine 
w'hich programs provide (or lack) the features you 
emphasize. 



example, automatically wxap text around graphic im- 
ages, even if they are irregularly shaped. 

■ Style sheets are just beginning to find their way 
into Macintosh wTiting and publishing programs. They 
allows you to associate various elements of your docu- 
ment and quickly reformat them. With substantial 
documents such as reports, longer new'sletters, 
magazines, or even books, style sheets are invalu- 
able. Expect them to be implemented widely 
in the coming year. 



Price, Value, and Ease of Use 

The cost of softw^are is ahvays a factor in making a 
purchasing decision. Basic word processing programs 
generally fall in the range of $125 to $175, while those 
with more features usually cost betw'een $200 and 
$400. Most desktop publishing programs range from 
$400 to $500, although a few cost up to $700. 

The greatest price you pay in purchasing a pro- 
gram will not be measured in dollars but in the time 
and effort required to implement it for your work. So 
you should factor in the issues of features, speed, and 
ease of use. If you don’t require a feature-laden pro- 
gram, the shorter learning period required by a sim- 
pler program is attractive. On the other hand, don’t 
make the mistake of buying a program that will ulti- 
mately be inadequate, just because it’s easier to pick 
up. Remember, too, that many dealers discount a 
program from its list price. 

Other Key Considerations 

■ In addition to correcting spelling, a spelling 
checker can identify typographical errors like mi.ssing, 
repeated, or reversed characters. Similarly, automatic 
hyphenation can divide w'ords that fall at the end of a 
line. While these features are typically found in a word 
processing program, they are also beginning to crop 
up in some desktop publishing programs: A7^;*ess, for 
example, has a spelling checker, and Ready, Set, Go! 4 
offers both a spelling checker and style sheets. 

If your w'ord processing prc3gram has no integra- 
ted spelling checker, numerous programs are sold sep- 
arately. They usually take the form of a desk accessory, 
W'hich you invoke while using the word processor. 

■ Outlining is another useful tool in preparing 
and reorganizing documents. Some w-ord processing 
programs, such as Word 3.0 and MmdWrite, integrate 
it. Other independent packages include Living Video- 
text’s More, an elegant and pow'erful outliner, and Acta 
from Symmetry, an able, practical desk accessory. 

■ How text and graphics interact on the page is 
a major issue. The more basic word processing pro- 
grams such as MacWrite and WriteNoiv allow' graphics 
to exist only within their ow'n horizontal area, so you 
cannot place text next to a graphic image. Although 
some, like Wordi.O, allow' graphics next to text, their 
methods are sometimes cumbersome. 

While all desktop publishing programs allow' you 
to place graphics next to text, some provide unique ca- 
pabilities in this area. XPress and Ready,Set,Go! 4, for 



Into the Future 

As these tw'o areas continue to mature, overlap- 
ping of functions will increase. Desktop publishing 
programs will be adorned with features traditionally 
associated w'ith such w'ord pro- 
cessing programs as spelling 
checkers, style sheets, indexing, 
and tables of contents, w'hile 
w'ord processing programs will 
incorporate more page-layout 
capabilities, such as true screen- 
to-printer fidelity and better 
handling of graphics. In addi- 
tion, graphics and text w'ill mix 
more smoothly. 

Programs currently avail- 
able on the IBM PC and compat- 
ibles will continue to influence 
the evolution of Macintosh w'ord processing. For exam- 
ple, the macro programming capability of WordPerfect 
and others w'ill show' up in Mac programs. Macros save 
time by customizing a pmgram’s operation thmugh 
automating sequences of keystrokes (or mouse clicks) 
to repeat a given task. 

Finally, batch-oriented minicomputer-style pro- 
grams are expected in the next six months from PS 
Compose and others (Interleaf’s is available nowO. 
These products are best suited to book-length, multi- 
volume, or multiple-author environments. 

The term document processing suggests the 
interface of w'ord processing and page makeup, and 
signifies the progress being made in Macintosh pub- 
lishing. With the added pow'er of the Mac II and the SE, 
developers w'ill introduce some very innovative prod- 
ucts for the market. 

-Eric Alderman 



Master all stages of 
written communication, 
from the organization 
of concepts to the 
production of visually 
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Vendor 



Product 



Price 



Notes 



Desktop Publishing 


Addison-Wesley 
Publishing Co. 


TEXtures 


495.00 


Implements TeX typesetting std. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive.* 


Adobe Systems, Inc. 


Adobe Separator 


99.00 


Color-separator DA for Adobe Illustrator. 


Aldus Corp. 


PageMaker 2.0 


495.00 


Text/graphics integration. Req. 51 2K, 800K drive. 


Aldus Corp. 


PageMaker Classroom 


750.00 


Desktop publishing training materials tor 10 students. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Aldus Corp. 


PageMaker Portlolio: 
Designs tor Newsletters 


79.00 


Newsletter formats. Req. 51 2K. 


Baudville 


Award Maker Plus 


49.95 


Personalized, professional certificates w/integrated 
text/graphics. Req. 512K. 


Boston Publishing 
Systems, Inc. 


MacPublisher III 


295.00 


Rotates text/graphics; resizes PostSript tiles; imports Irom 
MaeWrite/Word. 1024 pp. per issue. Req. 512K.* 


Bree Technologies, Inc. 


Set & Send 


995.00 


Mac-to-Compugraphic MCS system. Generates 
prolessional-quality galleys. 


Digital Technology 
International 


DisplayAd MakeUp System 


2495.00 


Layout system for display ads. Qutputs to laser printer. 
Req. 1 MB. Phototypesetter version, $2995. 


FTL Systems, Inc. 


MacTex 2.0 


750.00 


Professional typography based on TeX 2.1. Req. 1 MB. ext. 
drive, PostScript-compatible printer, AppleTalk.* 


Knowledge Engineering 


JustText 


195.00 


Word processing/page-makeup system tor PostScript 
compatibles. Req. 51 2K. 


Letraset USA 


Ready,Set,Go!4 


495.00 


Style sheets; type specs.; auto, runarounds; interactive 
facing pages; batch/word processing; Req. 51 2K. 


Mindscape,lnc. 


GraphieWorks 


149.95 


Page layout. Combines text, graphics, scanned images. 
Req. 512K. 


Olduvai Soltware, Inc. 


Read-ltl 


149.00 


QCR. Produces text file w/word processors. Req. 1MB. 


Orange Micro, Inc. 


Ragtime 2 


395.00 


Combines words, numbers, graphics, forms. Req. 51 2K. 


Personal Training Systems 


PageTutor Series 


49.95 


Self-paced 90-min. tutorials for PageMaker 2.0. 
Audiocasselte, disk. Req. 1MB. 


PS Publishing, Inc. 


PS Compose 


800.00 


Page layout/composition. PostScript CG version. $2000. 


Quark, Inc. 


Quark XPress 


695.00 


Integrated desktop publishing soltware. Req. 51 2K.* 


Radco & Associates/ 
Fit to Print 


E-Z Newsletter Kit 


29.95 


Forms; Writer's Word Menu; proofreading guides. 


Solutions. Inc. 


SuperGlue 


89.95 


Graphic-transfer DA. Text extraction; font substitution; 
image-size change. Req. 51 2K. 


Solutions, Inc. 


The Curator 


139.95 


Catalogs/integrates art. EPSF, TIFF, MacPaint, Glue, or 
PICT formats. Req. 51 2K. 


Target Soltware 


Scoop 


495.00 


WYSIWYG text editor; graphics package; spellchecker. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Index/Bibliography 


Boston Publishing 
Systems. Inc. 


Macindexer 


79.95 


Indexes multipage MacWrite/Microsoft Word documents. 
Req. 51 2K. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Personal Bibliographic 
Sollware, Inc. 


Biblio-Link Series 


195.00 


3 programs reformat from databases (DIALOG, MEDLARS, 
others) to Pro-Cite. Req. 51 2K w/Sys. 4.1 up. $195 ea. 


Personal Bibliographic 
Software, Inc. 


Pro-Cite 


295.00 


Bibliographic database/text-mgt. system. Sort; search; 
index; format. 20 pp. per record. Req. 51 2K w/Sys. 4.1 up. 


Unicom Software 
Development Group 


MacFilm 


2750.00 


Film/book/subject database. Maintains film/patron 
circulation. Overdue notices. Req. 51 2K. 


Outliners 


Deneba Software 


XTRA 


195.00 


Outline processor w/presentation graphics. Includes DA 
version. Req. 51 2K. 


Living Videotext, Inc. 


MORE 


295.00 


Combines outline processing/desktop elements, including 
tree/bullet charts. Req. 512K.* 


Living Videotext, Inc. 


ThinkTank512 


195.00 


Combines reorganization w/word processing. Req. 51 2K.* 


MaxThink 


MaxThink 


89.00 


Extensive reorganization/manipulation/idea processing. 
Req. 512K. 


Symmetry Corporation 


Acta 1.2 


59.95 


Outline processor. 


Spellcheckers 


Aegis Development, Inc. 


Doug Clapp's Word Tool 


79.95 


Text analysis; punctuation/style checker. Rates grade level, 
readability, interest level, length. Req. 51 2K. 


DataPak Software, Inc. 


Liberty Spell II 


79.95 


Spellchecker for major word processors. Req. 51 2K. 


Deneba Software 


Coach Merriam-Webster 
Thesaurus 


59.95 


45,000-word entry-point thesaurus w/definitions and 
hypertext virtual cross-reference capability. Req. 51 2K. 


Deneba Software 


Coach Professional 


195.00 


Spelling Coach/Coach Thesaurus features plus 80,000-word 
dictionary w/full definitions. Req. 512K. 


Deneba Software 


Spelling Coach 


99.95 


Interactive/batch spellchecker DA. 154,000-word dictionary. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Electronic Arts 


Thunder 1.1 


49.95 


DA spellchecker. Req. 512K. 


EnterSet 


MacGAS 


99.00 


Spellchecker; glossary; thesaurus. Use w/MacWrite, Word, 
Jazz. Req. 512K.* 


Lundeen & Associates 


WorksPlus Spell 


79.95 


Integrated w/Works. Functions accessed from word 
processing menus. Glossary. Req. 51 2K, Works. 


Working Software, Inc. 


Lookup 


49.95 


Looks up single-word spelling from inside any Mac program. 
Req. 512K. 


Working Software, Inc. 


Spellswell 


74.95 


Proofreader and spellchecker. Req. 512K. 


Word Processing 


American Intelliware Corp. 


Scriptwriter 


495.00 


Dual-column scripts, formatted screenplays. Req. 512K, 
800K drive. 


American Intelliware Corp. 


Storyboarder 


495.00 


Print/video storyboards. Intelligent formatting; special 
effects; more. Req. 51 2K, 800K drive. 


Ann Arbor Softworks, Inc. 


FullWrite Professional 


395.00 


Built-in MacDraw environment. Outlining; auto, text wrap; 
spellchecker; mail merge; more. Req. 1 MB, ext. drive. 


Claris Corp. 


MacWrite 


125.00 


7 typefaces; compatible w/MacPaint, MacDraw, 
MacTerminal. 



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Innovision 


Calliope Plus 


99.00 


Nonoutlining idea-processing tool. Req. 512K. 


LM Software 


Mac Spec 


199.95 


Word processor for specs. Req. 51 2K. 


Microsoft Corp. 


Microsoft Word 3.0 


395.00 


Integrated outliner; graphics; spellchecker; format recall; 
more. Req. 51 2K, BOOK drive. 


Mindwork Software 


MindWrite 


295.00 


Develops concepts into copy. Outliner w/integrated word 
processing. Req. 51 2K. 


Personal Training Systems 


LearnWord 3.0 


49.95 


Self-paced 90 min. tutorials for Microsoft Word 3.0, 3.01. 
Audiocassette, disk. Req. 51 2K. 


T/Maker Company 


Write Now 


175.00 


WYSIWYG multiple columns on screen; 50,000-word 
spellchecker. 


WordPerfect Corp. 


WordPerfect 


395.00 


Word processor w/1 15,000-word spellchecker; thesaurus; 
text columns; macro; merge. Req. 51 2K. 



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Laser FX is one of 
the most powerful 
utility programs to 
be produced for 
the new desktop 
publishing indus- 
try. It allows both 
the novice and 
the experienced 
user the flexibility 
of design never 
before possible in the new microcomputer 
marketplace (no programming knowledge is 
necessary). Simply take any PostScript” font 
and use any of the 30 effects to create a 
dazzling typographical masterpiece. You can 
print directly from Laser FX or paste directly into 
Quark XPress™, Ready, Set, Go IS”*, PageMaker 
2.0”*, Microsoft Word 3.0” or most other popular 
desktop publishing packages. Laser Fx has the 
ability to read PICT files or paint files created in 
other programs such as MacDraw” or 
MacPaint”. This allows you to add special 




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publishing task can be greatly enhanced with 
Laser FX . It can be used for creating special 
effects in newsletters, for designing logos with 
only a minimum of effort, or adding that extra 
pizazz to your presentation. The program is so 
simple that you will be using it expertly within 
minutes. You can use any PostScript font that 
is resident in your laser printer or any 
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seconds to create and approximately 35 seconds to 
print. The screens above are actual reproductions of 
the options chosen to produce the effect seen on the 
right. We are using Helvetica®, one of the standard 
fonts found in the PostScript”^ laser printer. As you can 
see by the various option windows above, there are 



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raphics programs have evolved 
and diversified more than any 
other type of Macintosh program. 
Although MacPaint is taken for 
granted now, it was revolutionary 
when introduced and set a user 
interface standard still emulated by 
many others. Hut rather than simjMy 
building on MacPaint's break- 
through, Mac graphics have prolif- 
erated in a dozen directions, 
offering specialized features for disciplines ranging fix)m 
the fine arts to architecture to desktop publishing. 

Their users are just as diverse. Workers who occa- 
sionally place illustrations into office reports may get 
by with an inexpensive paint program \\h^ MacPaint 
or Fit I [Paint. Those who make elaborate presentations 
can benefit from such business graphics programs as 
More, Power Point, Microsoft Chart. Technical 
illustrators may find Adobe appropriate, 

while desktop publishers can create graphics in paint 
and draw programs, select images from clip-art disks, 
or digitize pictures with a 300-dots-per-inch (dpi) 
scanner. Engineers and architects can choose among a 
variety of 2-D and 3-D programs, each suited to a par- 
ticular area of professional design. 

Graphics applications can be broken down into 
several major categories. 





Painting and Drawing 

Applications that use bit-mapped 
graphics, like MacPaint, FullPaint, and 
MacBillboard, are known as paint j^ro- 
grams. They simulate such real tools as a 
paintbrush, an eraser, or a pencil. The.se 
programs are usually appropriate for the 
fine arts, detailed technical illustrations, 
and other illiustrations that require dot-by- 
dot detail. Although you can edit pictures 
pixel by pixel, paint programs operate at a 
resolution of 72 dpi, producing relatively 
coarse drawings by today s standards. Full- 
Paint broke the 72-dpi barrier by allowing 
300-dpi editing for more precise Diser- 
Writer output, but working at that .scale 
is time con.suming. 

Object-oriented programs such as 
MacDraw and MacDraft record elements of a drawing 
as separate objects that you can restructure if neces- 
sary. While a rectangle drawn with a paint program is 
simply a pattern of pixels, a draw program produces 
dynamic objects. For example, a rectangle witli a cer- 
tain size, border width, and pattern fill can be resized 
without distorting its proportions or shading. Draw 
programs are suitable for drafting applications (floor 
plans, simple architectural renderings, and the like), 
flowcliarts, and technical drawings that make use of 
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Hybrids 

Several programs have the attributes of both paint 
and draw programs. SuperPaint and GraphicWorks 
combine bit-mapped and object-oriented graphics, as 
well as LaserWriter fonts. While the two programs 
have similar capabilities and prices, differences in user 
interface and specialized tools make comparison 
shopping a must. Another interesting hybrid is Laser- 
Paint, which is in a higher price bracket but offers 
word processing and color separation modules in ad- 
dition to draw and paint modules. You can customize 
any of these programs by adding laser or bit-mapped 
fonts, which range from mathematical symbols to 
decorative script. 

PostScript 

PostScript-based graphics programs like Cricket 
Draw and Illustrator take advantage of the printing 
capabilities of the LaserWriter (300 dpi) and higher- 
re.solution printing devices like phototypesetters (up 
to 2500 dpi ). While drawing programs utilize some 
PostScript capabilities, such as gray scales, PostScript- 
based programs give nonprogrammers impressive 
special effects, including rotated and angled text or 
objects, text on an irregular path, and fountains (gradi- 
ent fills). Artists use Illustrators Bezier curves to 
trace drawings and then shade and refine them with 
the program s other tools. Cricket Draw, a general- 
purpose drawing program, places an imj^ressive col- 
lection of PostScript effects in an easy-to-use interface. 

Gray-Level Editing 

Desktop publishers can now' choose among a 
number of 300-dpi scanners to digitize photos or art- 
w'ork for publications. Digitized photos can be re- 
touched with ImageStuclio from I.etraSet, which 
allows you to w^ork in 65 levels of gray. A Mac II with a 
color graphics card and color monitor can display all 
65 shades, offering an ideal environment in which to 
edit pictures. ImageStuclio s tools follow' ihe MacPaiut 
tradition by closely imitating the functions of artists’ 
tools, including charcoal, w'atercolors, and even finger- 
paint. It is currently the only program in this category, 
though others will follow' soon. 

Computer-Aided Design and Drafting 

Macintosh drawing programs didn’t remain in 
tw'o dimensions for long. Over the years, a number of 
three-dimensional graphics programs have appeared, 
including Hasy3D, MacSpace, MacMoclel, 

Phoenix 3D, and Dimensions. Responding to the 
need for more sophisticated capabilities, l:)Oth Mac- 
Space and Easy3D evolved into professional versions, 
SpaceBclit and Pro3D. A promising newcomer, Super 
3D, should be av'ailable soon. These packages range 
in price from $50 to $2500 and are approj^riate for ap- 
plications ranging from the graphic arts to architec- 
tural rendering. In addition to general-purpo.se 3-D 
softw'are, such specialized programs i\sSche))ia, 
NewStuclio, MacPerspectire allow architects to 



view' their creations in three dimensions. 

In the tW'O-dimensional CAD arena, programs like 
MiniCacl, EZ-Draft, and MCMStation offer architects, 
engineers, and draftsmen the features and precision 
they need, and a Macintosh version of the popular 
VersaCAD is in the w'orks. Although the Mac has yet to 
fulfill Apple’s dreams of “desktop engineering," it is 
w'inning converts among architects, engineers, and 
other designers because of its relatively low' price, its 
w idening software ba.se, and the fact that Mac .software 
requires le.ss training lime than do CAD programs 
on other PCs. 

Color 

Mac owners W' ho w'anted color output w'ere once 
limited to the ImageWriter II or pen plotters. Now' the 
Mac II offers impressive color capability, but because 
color output devices are still scarce, the color gener- 
ally goes no further than the screen. Color has been 
added to some programs, in- 
cluding Mac3D, VicleoWorks II, 

Cricket Draw, Graph icWorks, 

SpaceEdil, and MCMStation. 

Cricket Draw, LaserPaint, 
and Illustrator allow' artists to 
make color separations, but the 
process recjuires a good deal of 
expertise. Film recorders from 
Matrix, Dunn Instruments, and 
Presentation Technologies have been released this 
year. Lightspeed’s Color Page Layout System, a graph- 
ic design program that runs on the Mac II, includes an 
interface to a color scanner for input and a thermal 
printer for color output. 

The Future 

In addition to color output devices, established 
standards are urgently needed for storing and transfer- 
ring graphic images; to date, many programs offer a 
hodgepodge of file format options {MacPaint, PICT, 
TIFF, EPSF, and so on). While the diversity of programs 
precludes a universal graphics file format, developers 
should w'ork together to ensure that, for example, one 
program's TIFl* files are comixuible with another's. 

The Mac II has opened up a new w'orld of graph- 
ics; the abilit\' to display 256 colors on a large monitor 
is a far cry from the small-screen, one-bit-per-pixel, 
black-and-white Mac of only a year ago. The Mac Il's 
open architecture will promote the development of 
add-on products such as floating-point coprocessors 
to speed the display of 3-D images. 

Programs in all the categories mentioned abcwe 
w'ill continue to improve. New, as yet unheard-of types 
of programs will appear (no one knew of PostScript- 
effects programs or gray-level editors until recently). 
And perhaps someone w'ill bring us a color version of 
MacPahit to begin the cycle of Macintosh graphics 
evolution again on a grander scale. 

-Erfe rt Nielson 



Draw, paint, and design with 
the eiectronic equivaients 
of an artist’s studio and a 
drafting tabie 



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Vendor 



Product 



Price 



Notes 



2-D 


Abvent, Inc. 


AnaTool 


795.00 


Structured system analysis/documentation of system-info, 
flow. Dafa dictionary: consistency checks; process specs. 
Req. 512K. 


Abvent, Inc. 


Blue-60 


1495.00 


Engineering workbench for creating/maintaining dafa models 
in software development. Std. entity-relation diagrams using 
Boyce-Codd method. Req. 1MB. 


Abvent, Inc. 


MacSpace 


385.00 


2-D/3-D software for 3-D design. Mac 51 2K to Mac SE. 


Abvent, Inc. 


SpaceEdit 


625.00 


Vector-based 2-D/3-D CAD for designers. Perspeefive 
views; Y-frame; solid or shaded format. Color optional for 
Mac II. Req. 51 2K. 


B. Knick Drafting 


MacPerspective 


179.00 


Precision drafting for complex drawings. Req. 51 2K. 


Bishop Graphics CAD 
Systems Corp. 


Quik Circuit PCB 30000 


525.00 


Layout of printed-circuit artwork for 2-sided/multilayer 
boards. Req. 51 2K. 


Bishop Graphics CAD 
Systems Corp. 


Quik Circuit PCB 30007 


395.00 


Layout of printed-circult artwork for 2-sided/multilayer 
boards. Req. 51 2K. 


Bishop Graphics CAD 
Systems Corp. 


Quik Circuit PCB 30015 


95.00 


Layout of printed-circuit artwork for 2-sided/multilayer 
boards. Req. 51 2K. 


Bridgeport Machines 


EZ-DRAFT 


2495.00 


Dynamic dimensioning. Projection from any orthogonal view to 
any other view. Complies with ANSI stds. Y14.5. Req. Mac 
512KE to Mac SE, hard disk. 


Bridgeport Machines 


EZ-EDM 


4667.00 


N/C programming station. 2- or 4-axis part-designing 
programs for CNC WIRE/EDM equipment. Req. Mac 512KE 
to Mac SE, hard disk. $2800 if bought w/EZ-TURN 
or EZ-MILL. 


Bridgeport Machines 


EZ-MILL 


4667.00 


Creates N/C part programs for milling centers. Library; 
postprocessors; more. Req. Mac 512KE to Mac SE, hard 
disk. $2800 if bought w/EZ-TURN or EZ-EDM. 


Bridgeport Machines 


EZ-SURF 


3500.00 


Designs 3-D wire-frame models for cutting die molds. Full 
3-D shapes w/arcs, lines, splines. Add-on to EZ-MILL. 
Req. Mac 512KE to Mac SE, hard disk. 


Bridgeport Machines 


EZ-TURN 


4667.00 


N/C programming station for 2- or 4-axis turning centers. 
Interactive. Dynamic menu selection; translators for IGES/DXF 
files. Req. Mac 512KE to Mac SE, hard disk. $2800 when 
bought w/EZ-MILL or EZ-EDM. 


CompServCo 


MacCAD 


49.00 


12-template CAD library for McDraw/McDraft. Req. 512K.* 
$49-$199ea. 


Computer Aided Systems 
for Engineering 


MacDesigner 


1995.00 


CAD design system. Dynamic dimensioning; multiple views; 
layering; multiple colors. Req. 1MB, hard disk. 


Computer Shoppe 


PowerDraw 


595.00 


CAD for architects/engineers. Precision placements for x/y 
coordinates. Keyboard-entry option. Req. 1MB. 


Cricket Software 


Cricket Graph 


195.00 


Graphing for bus., engineering, science. Req. 512K.’ 


Data Basics, Inc. 


SNAP! 


695.00 


Professional CAD. Built-in plotter driver; auto-dimensioning/ 
area measurements; fence/group commands. Req. 1MB. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Diehl Graphsoff, Inc. 


Minicad 


495.00 


CAD. 9-decimal precision; 40 color layers. Req. 51 2K. 


DKL Technology, Inc. 


MacGDS 


6200.00 


GDS II stream-compatible workstation w/DBMS. Supports 
64-99 layers of structure nesting. Req. 512K. 


Douglas Electronics 


Douglas CAD/CAM 


95.00 


Printed-circuit board layout/mfg. system. Req. 51 2K, 
1200-baud modem. 


Gibbs & Associates 


ncCAD 


1575.00 


Interactive design for numerical-control mfg. Req. 51 2K, 
two BOOK drives.* 


Gibbs & Associates 


ncCAM 


2075.00 


Creates numerical-control programs from ncCAD. IGES- 
coinpatible. Req. 51 2K, two BOOK drives.* 


Innovative Data Design, Inc. 


MacDraft 


269.00 


Object-oriented draft/design for architects, engineers, 
draftspersons, publishers, graphic artists. Req. 512K.* 


Macro Print CAD 


MACROPrint 


495.00 


Plots CAD programs on Versatec or CalComp electrostatic 
plotters. 400 dpi. Req. 512K. 


Meta Software Corp. 


Design 


250.00 


Graphics/text-handling. Helps visualize complex systems. 
Flow charts; more. Remembers logical relationships. 

Req. 51 2K. * 


MICRO CAD/CAM, Inc. 


MGMStafion 


799.00 


CAD w/appins. for architecture, mechanical design, 
electronics, microwave. Plotter interface. Req. 51 2K.* 


Vamp, Inc. 


McCAD PCB 


395.00 


Electronic printed-circuit board design. Req. 51 2K. To $695. 


Versacad Corp. 


Versacad/Macintosh Edition 


1995.00 


Varied design objects, attributes; unlimited visual-symbol 
libraries. Req. 1MB, math coprocessor. 


Visual Information, Inc. 


DXF Transfer 


495.00 


Bidirectional data conversion bet. Design Dimensions/ 
AutoCAD. Req. 51 2K. 


3-D 


A.P.P.L.E. Coop 


MacModel 


40.00 


3-D graphics. Not HFS compatible. 


Challenger Software Corp. 


Mac3D 


249.00 


2-D/3-D drawing package w/2-D text ability. Req. 51 2K.* 


Dreams of the Phoenix, Inc. 


Phoenix 3-D Level One 


49.95 


3-D graphics appin. Req. 512K.* 


Enabling Technologies 


3D Clip Object Disks 


49.95 


Series of unmerged object files for use w/Easy3D and 
Pro3D/Mac. Req. 51 2K. 


Enabling Technologies 


Easy3D 


149.95 


3-D solid modeling. Lathe/Jigsaw creation; lighting; Boolean 
merge operations; full rofation; scaling. Req. 51 2K. 


Enabling Technologies 


Pro3D/Mac 


349.00 


3-D solid modeling for CAD/illustration. Lighting; Boolean 
merge; dimensioning; high-res. output. Req. 51 2K. 


Silicon Beach Software 


Super 3D 


295.00 


3-D editing/modeling. Built-in animation. Req. 51 2K. 
Enhanced version (supports color/math coprocessor), $495. 


Spinnaker Software Corp. 


da Vinci Series-Building Blocks 


79.95 


400+ architecfually designed blocks. Creates 3-D 
building designs. 


Spinnaker Software Corp. 


da Vinci Series- 
Commercial Interiors 


199.95 


Scaled images of interior commercial spaces. 


Spinnaker Software Corp. 


da Vinci Series-Home Design 


79.95 


600+ scaled 3-D images of furniture, appliances, fixtures, 
accessories. Req. 512K, MacPaint, MacDraw. 


Visual Information, Inc. 


Design Dimensions 


750.00 


B/w 3-D CAD w/free-form surface modeling. Req. 512K. 



Color, $1395. Req. Mac II, SuperMac monitor. 



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GRAPHICS 






Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Visual Information. Inc. 


Solid Dimensions ' 


395.00 


, B/w 3-D solid modeling/visualizing w/shading, ray tracing. 
Req. 51 2K. Color, $1295. Req. Mac II, SuperMac monitor. 


Animation 


Beck-Tech 


MacMovies 


99.00 


Graphic animation. Full-screen update at 30 frames per 
second. MacPaint format. Req. 51 2K. 


MacroMind 


VideoWorks II 


195.00 


Creates b/w and color animated slide shows. 


Business Graphics 


CE Software 


CalendarMaker 


39.95 


Custom calendars. Pictorial, full-page, or 2 months per page. 


Computer Friends, Inc. 


Color Sep 


99.00 


Produces PostScript-compatible digital 4-color separations 
from PICT files. Req. 1MB. 


Cricket Software 


Cricket Presents. . . 


495.00 


Hi-res. b/w and color output to slides, overhead 
transparencies. Req. 51 2K. 


Forethought, Inc. 


PowerPoint 


395.00 


Desktop presentations. 35mm slides; overhead 
transparencies; flip-charts. Req. 512K, BOOK drive. 


Letraset USA 


Image Studio 


495.00 


Image-retouching software. 


Microsoft Corp. 


Microsoft Chart 


125.00 


Standalone graphics. 42 formats; stat. functions. Compatible 
w/other Microsoft software. 


Presentation 
Technologies, Inc. 


ImageMaker 


4995.00 


35mm desktop slide-making. Over 8000 scan lines res. 
Phototypeset quality. Req. 51 2K. 


Presentation 
Technologies. Inc. 


ImageMaker Mac Driver 


149.00 


Uses Mac software w/lmageMaker lo create 35mm color 
slides. Req. 512K. 


Select Micro Systems, Inc. 


FloMaster 


495.00 


Advertising media flow-charting. Runs in color on Mac II. 
Req. 512K. 


Select Micro Systems, Inc. 


MapMaker 


295.00 


Map-making system. Runs in color on Mac II. Req. 512K. 


Clip Art 


bede tech 


Coloring Book 


24.00 


Full-page animal illustrations for MacPaint. Req. 512K. 


CompuCRAFT 


MAC-ART LIBRARY 


250.00 


MacPaint images. Animals; Farm Life; Geography; Kitchen; 
Sports; Tools; Buildings; Signs/Symbols/Borders; more. 
Separate disks, $39.95 ea. 


Desktop Graphics 


DrawArt 


49.95 


Graphics library in MacDraw files. 150+ images. Customizes 
sizes, scales, patterns, borders. Prints on ImageWriter/ 
LaserWriter. Req. 51 2K. 


Dynamic Graphic, Inc. 


Desktop Art 


74.95 


Each of 7 volumes contains 200-300 images in MacPaint, 
MacDraw, or FullPaint files. Req. ext. drive. $74.95 ea. 


Enzan-Hoshigumi (USA) 


Japanese Clip Art 


149.95 


Scroll 1: Japanese religion/mythology; Scroll 2: Secular 
paintings/prints. $79.95 ea. 


Image Club Graphics 


Digit-Art Laser Graphics 


99.00 


Three 3-disk volumes of contemporary symbols, cartoons, 
borders. Req. 512K, MacDraw. Volume 3, $149. 


Innovative Data Design. Inc. 


Paste-Ease 


49.95 


1000 images/illustrations. Creates custom brochures, 
greeting cards, letterheads, more. 


Miles Computing, Inc. 


MTK 3: Mac the Ripper 


49.95 


2 disks. Holiday illustrations; 9 large decorative fonts. 


Miles Computing. Inc. 


MTK 5: People, Places, and Things 


49.95 


MacPaint files, classic to modern art. For illustration/ 
presentation graphics. 



208 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Olduvai Software, Inc. 


Post Art 


49.95 


3 disks. Images for Adobe Illustrator, Cricket Draw, 
MacDraw. Req. 51 2K. 


Springboard Software 


Art Ala Mac 


39.95 


People & Places. Faces; buildings; historical places. 


Springboard Software 


Certificate Library 


34.95 


100+ certificates/awards. 


Springboard Software 


Certificate Maker 


59.95 


200+ certificates/awards. 24 borders. 


Springboard Software 


Variety Pack 


39.95 


Grab bag of 600+ pictures. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt Business Image 


49.95 


Bus. images; industrial symbols; professional borders; 
flow-chart templates; graphic alphabets; abstract logos. 
Req. MacPaint-compatible appin. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt Holidays 


49.95 


Holiday images. Req. MacPaint-compatible appin. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt Personal Graphics 


49.95 


Contemporary images of people, animals, cars, symbols. 
Req. MacPaint-compatible appin. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt Publications 


49.95 


Borders; dingbats; cartoons; maps; decorative alphabets. 
Req. MacPaint-compatible appin. 


Fonts 


Adobe Systems, Inc. 


Adobe Type Library 


145.00 


35+ downloadable typefaces. Req. 512K, ext. drive, 
PostScript-compatible printer. $145-$185 ea. 


Allotype Typographies 


Downloadable Laser Fonts 


85.00 


Classical Greek. Serif/sans serif, $75; 100 Chemical 
structures, $125 (w/scientific text, $160); Polish serif/sans 
serif, $85; Serif small caps, $40. 


Altsys Corp. 


Family Builder 


100.00 


Font-combining utility. Auto, selection. For advanced users. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Altsys Corp. 


Fontaslic Fonts 


19.95 


Bit-map fonts for Mac screen/lmageWriter. 
$19.95-$39.95ea. 


Altsys Corp. 


Fontastic Plus 


79.95 


Bit-map font editor. Supports fractional character spacing, 
kerning pairs. MaePaint-style editing. Req. 512K. 


Altsys Corp. 


Fontographer 


395.00 


Professional font logo/design pack. Creates PostScript/bit- 
map fonts. Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Altsys Corp. 


Fontographer Fonts 


59.95 


PostScript fonts for LaserWriter/Linofronics printers. 
Editable outlines avail. Req. 51 2K. 


Casady Ware, Inc. 


Fluent Fonts 


49.95 


2 disks. 48 fonts. Req. ImageWriter. 


Casady Ware, Inc. 


Fluent Laser Fonts 


69.95 


Series of 15 laser-font families. Req. 512K, LaserWriter. 
$69.95 ea. 


Devonian International 
Software 


FONTgenix 


99.50 


4-volume set. Dot matrix display fonts. Separate volumes, 
$29.50. FOREIGN FONTS EDITION, $49.50. 


Devonian International 
Software 


LASERgenix 


32.50 


Sets of downloadable LaserPrinler fonts. $32.50 ea. 


Dubl-Click Software, Inc. 


World-Class Fonts! 


59.00 


2 volumes. Text; decorative; borders; Cyrillic; Greek; 
Hebrew; architectural; symbolic; more. $39 ea. 


Image Club Graphics 


LaserType 


149.00 


8 fonts per set. 


Invincible Software 


Desktop Publishers Collection 


550.00 


Desktop publishing font collection. Individual fonts, $35. 


Invincibfe Software 


Faces Collection 


35.00 


18 display fonts in various styles. $35 ea. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Miles Computing, Inc. 


MTK 4; An Orchestra of Fonts 


49.95 


30 ImageWriter text fonts. 9-24 point. Supports international 
characters. 


Neoscribe International 


LaserPerfect Fonts 


95.00 


Downloadable fonts for LaserWriter/Linotronic printers. 
Kerned letters; old-style numerals: thin/em; italics; more. 
LaserHebrew, $145. 


Paragon Courseware 


ElectroFonts 


99.00 


Electronic analog/digital symbols. Scientific fonts, $49.95 


Postcraft International, Inc. 


Laser FX 


195.00 


30 effects from existing fonts. Up to 4999 pt. Req. 51 2K, 
LaserWriter. 


Probability Distribution 


Scientific Symbols Fonts 


40.00 


All characters in IBM's Selectric symbols ball; more. 


T/Maker Company 


Bombay LaserLetters 


79.95 


Downloadable display-type PostScript lont packages. 
Seville/Plymouth packages avail. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt 


79.95 


Downloadable PostScript-compatible font packages. 
$79.95 ea. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt Letters 1/2 


49.95 


Fonts/typeface packages. $49.95 ea. 


T/Maker Company 


Seville LaserLetters 


79.95 


Downloadable display-type PostScript font packages. 


The Laser Connection 


The Adobe Typeface Library 


185.00 


Laser fonts. $185 ea. 


Paint/Draw 


Adobe Systems, Inc. 


Adobe Illustrator 


495.00 


Creates professional line art using PostScript. Req. 512K. 


Altsys Corp. 


Masterpiece 


500.00 


Creates prolessional line art. Font and logo creation, pair 
kerning, color-separation functions. 


Ann Arbor Soltworks, Inc. 


Full Paint 


99.95 


Edits 4 documents at once. Color print; laser print; special 
effects. Req. 51 2K. 


Beck-Tech 


Chromatron 


2995.00 


Color-scan converter. Standard NTSC or PAL video 
output.16-color palatte. Compatible w/all paint programs. 


Broderbund Soitware 


The Print Shop 


59.95 


Creates/prints pictures, symbols, borders. Req. 51 2K. 


CE Software 


MacBILLBOARD 


35.00 


Enlarges pictures to 500 sq. ft. Creates banners 1- or 
2-sheets wide. Req. 512K. 


Claris Corp. 


MacDraw 


195.00 


Onscreen palette of fools, shapes, std./custom rulers, grids. 
Resizes, rotates, moves, duplicates objects. Combines 
graphics/text. 


Claris Corp. 


MacPaint 


125.00 


Design tool. Creates free-form drawings; manipulates 
existing images. 


Computer Friends, Inc. 


Modern Artist 


149.00 


Full-color graphics. Artistic paint program lor Mac II. 


Computer Friends, Inc. 


SuperChroma 


1500.00 


Professional color graphics. Adds color to Mac 512KE/Plus. 


Cricket Soitware 


Cricket Draw 


295.00 


Object-oriented drawing using graphic capabilities of 
PostScript printers. Req. 512KE, 800K drive. 


Deneba Soitware 


CANVAS 


195.00 


Integrates capabilities of MacDraw/MacPaint. Includes 
CANVAS DA. 


EnterSet 


QuickPaint 


49.00 


Graphics utility w/clip art. Locates MacPaint files/pastes 
them into desktop publishing appins. 


Enzan-Hoshigumi (USA) 


MacCalligraphy 


149.95 


Calligraphy. Simulates brush on paper. Req. 512K. 


Folkstone Design, Inc. 


GridMaker 


49.00 


Creates 3-D grids within MacDraw or MacDraft. 



210 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Foundation Publishing , Inc. 


The Comic Strip Factory 


89.95 


For creation of comics or layout of graphics. Req. 51 2K. 


Great Wave Software 


Crystal Paint 


49.95 


Creates crystalline patterns. Replay/redraw. Req. 512K. 


Image Club Graphics 


Pages 


79.00 


Template for invitations, menus, awards, certificates. 


LaserWare, Inc. 


LaserPaint 


495.00 


PostScript graphics/text for camera-ready artwork. 
Drawing; painting; writing; layout/paste-up; 4-color 
separations. Req. 512KE. 


LaserWare, Inc. 


LaserWorks 


299.00 


Laser-font editor. Produces fonfs/graphic elements. 
Req. 1MB. 


MacroMInd 


MacroMind Utility Disk 


49.95 


Collection of graphic utilities/DAs. Req. 512K. 


Palomar Software, Inc. 


Colorizer 


49.95 


Adds color to PICT documents; saves image to disk or 
prints. DA changes system color environment. Req. 1MB. 
For Mac II. 


Silicon Beach Software 


SuperPaint 


149.95 


Graphics editor w/paint, draw capabilities. 300-dpi bit-map 
editing. Req. 512K. 


Solutions, Inc. 


Glue 


59.95 


Prints to disk. Image saver/viewer converts graphics to 
images for integration w/ofher appins. E-mail, bulletin- 
board, or LAN transfers. 


SuperMac Technology 


Pixel Paint 


300.00 


Color, bit-mapped desktop presentation for Mac II w/large 
screen. To $500. 


Symmetry Corporation 


Picture Base 


99.00 


Art mgt. Creates graphics database. Req. 51 2K. 


T/Maker Company 


ClickArt Effects 


49.95 


MacPaint-enhancement tools. Rotates, slants, adds 
perspective, or distorts. 




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Cricket Graph 119.00 

Statworks 74.00 

Data Tailor 

Trapeze 169.00 

Data Viz 

MacLink Plus w/Cable 129.00 

Deneba 

Coach.. Call 

Coach with Merr/Webst Thesaurus Call 

Coach Professional Call 

Comment 1.1 Call 

Innovative Data Design 

MacDraft 159.00 

Letraset 

Ready Set Go 4.0 399.00 

Lundeen & Associates 

Works & Spell 39.00 

Microsoft 

Word 3.1 239.00 

Multiplan 109.00 

File 109.00 

Works 179.00 

Excel 219.00 



Hard Drives. 

CMS Enhancements Inc. 

Pro-43 Internal for SE $1079.00 

MacStack 20 599.00 

Eliman Engineering Inc. 

20 MB Hard Drive 699.00 

Logic Array 

ProApp 30S 899.00 

Lowdown 

Lowdown 20 849.00 

Mirror Technologies 

Magnet 20 699.00 

Personal Computer Peripherals Corp. 
MacBottom HD21 859.00 

Floppy Drives. 

Chinnon 

800K Disk Drive 199.00 

Ehman Engineering 

800K External Floppy 189.00 

Mirror Technologies 

Magnum 800K External 209.00 

Monitors. 

Micrograpilic Images 

Megascreen Se Video System 1699.00 

Network Specialties 

Stretch Screen 20" 1399.00 

Radius 

Radius Full Page Display Call 

Memory Boards. 

Dove Computer 

MacSnap Model 524 129.00 

MacSnap Plus 2 249.00 

MacMemor>', Inc. 

MaxPlus 319.00 

Turbo Max 999.00 

Tape Backup. 

AST Research, Inc. 

AST 2000 1599.00 

Mountain 

20 MG Removable Bernoulli SCSI 1429.00 

40MB Fbced 20MB Removable 2599.00 

Digitizers/Scanners. 

AST 

Turboscan 1489.00 

Koala 

MacVision 2000x2000 Res 799.00 

Thunderware 

Thunderscan for Plus SE 209.00 



Modems. 

Hayes 

Smartmodem 1200 299.00 

Smartmodem 2400 449.00 

Smartcom 1 89.00 

Software. 

Aegis Development 

Doug Clapps Word Tools 45.00 

Affinity 

Tempo 55.00 

Ann Arbor Software 

Full Paint 54.00 

Full Write 169.00 

Asliton-Tate 

D:Base Mac 319.00 

Berkley Systems Design 

Stepping Out 59.00 

Blythe 

Omni 3 + 247.00 

Multiuser 3 + 495.00 

Borland 

Sidekick 59.00 

Brainpower 

Statview 512 Plus Call 

Broderbund 

Print Shop 29.00 

Central Point 

Copy II Mac 23.00 

Cricket 

Cricket Draw 169.00 



Silicone Beach 

Silicon Press 44.00 

Software Discoveries 

Merge Write 33.00 

Software Power Co. 

Power Up Call 

Springboard 

Certificate Maker 34.00 

SuperMac Software 

Super Spool 49.00 

Super Laser Spool 99.00 

Disk Fit 49.00 

Sentinel 99.00 

Survivor Software 

Mac Money 59.99 

Symmetr}’ 

Acta V1.2 59.00 

T/Maker 

Write Now 99.00 

Disks. 

Maxell 

MXF2 3.5" DS/DD 19.99 

Sony 

SCMFD2 3.5" DS/DD 19.99 

Surge Protectors. 

Curtis 

6 Outlet 6' Cord Filter 48.99 

PTI/Datashield 

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Communications 



eiccommunications ma\' be defined 
as the electronic transfer of infor- 
mation, usually between computers 
and/or remote terminals. Typical 
data transfers occur over telephone 
lines, local-area networks, or other 
cabling systems. Their a|:>plications 
range from accessing an electronic 
information service, such as Compu- 
Serve, to sharing a LaserWriter 
with other users in an office. 

To link a single computer with the outside world, 
you need a modem, telephone lines, and software to 
make vour Mac act like a terminal. 



Ways of Communicating 

^Electronic mailm(S messaging .send unformat- 
ted (text only) messages in the standard ASCII code 
(American Standard for Computer Information Inter- 
change) understood by virtually all computers. The 
ASCII format does not support special Macintosh char- 
acters like bullets, Greek letters, or letters with um- 
lauts or accents. Text files are not checked for errors, 

.so a noisy phone line can add typos to me.ssages. 

■ 7’7fe transfers fully formatted files. Error- 
checking protocols such as XModem (kn* Mac-to-Mac 
transfers) or Kermit (for many Mac-to-mainframe 
transfers) monitor transmission, because a single error 

can render the whole file useless. Mac-to- 
Mac Hies are made in a format called Mac- 
Binary, which transfers the file's name, 
type, creator, and other information as well 
as its text. Transferring the lile through an 
intermediate non-Mac system can require 
liinary hexadecimal (hinhex) conversion 
to the other machine and retranslation to 
the receiving Mac. Most softwaixr now han- 
dles these format conversions 
automatically. 

^Terminal emulation makes a Mac- 
intosh look like a standard "dumb'’ termi- 
nal to the remote computer. Terminal- 
emulator .software lets you enter data di- 
rectly into a remote computer, but it is used 
more commonly to adapt a Mac for elec- 
tronic mail and file transfers. 

mLocal-area networks have dedi- 
cated wiring that allows multiple users in 
the .same facility to use the same device, 
usually a LaserWTiter. Special .scjftware is 
needed, though its presence may not be 
obvious; the .sc^ftware for shared printers 
is included in the System Hie and the 
|:)rinter drivers. 

■ File sharing gives multiple users in one facility 
access to the same Hies via a local-area network. 

Some softw'are, such AppleShare, recjuires a Mac 
equipped with a hard disk on the network running as 
a dedicated file server Other approaches, such as 
rOPS and liypernet, offer distributed file serving by 



214 November 1987 




dividing file-serving software among the networked 
Macs without a dedicated server. 

mDiskserrin^, facilitated by such products as 
Share and the lOmega Bernoulli Box 10-f 10, allows 
you to partition a hard disk into volumes. Each uilume 
can then be accessed by different users simultaneously. 

Hardware 

Communications hardware rec|uirements vary 
with their uses. A modem converts computer data into 
a form that can cross telephone wires. (Dedicated digi- 
tal phone lines are so costly that only large organiza- 
tions can afford them. ) Macintosh modems have 
previously been external, but the Mac II and the SE 
can accept internal modems. 

Speed, standards, and price arc major factors in 
picking modems. The standard speeds are 300, 1200, 
and 2400 (which functionally means bits per 
second), although some 9600-baud modems have 
reached the market. Most modems now work at 1200 
or 2400 baud (which is best for file transfers). Al- 
though some information services charge a premium 
for access at higher speeds, the cost per bit is almost 
always lower and the time savings significant. Stan- 
dards are not firm for 9600 baud; if you need to send 
data that fast, the best approach is to pick matching 
modems. Prices are coming down, ranging from under 
$200 to nearly $1000, depending on baud rate. 

The command codes used to control modem op- 
eration are a separate issue. The de facto standard is a 
set of commands developed by Hayes Microcomputer 
several years ago. Some communications software, 
such as Hayes's own Smcirtconi II, automatically uses 
the Hayes command set and wx)ift w'ork properly with 
inct)mpatible modems; other terminal-emulation soft- 
ware, such as Red Ryder, Microphone, and in Tcilh, 
does not require precise Hayes com|:)atibility. 



ally the best buy is software versatile enough to do 
many tasks, unless you have specific requirements that 
such software can’t satisfy. 

Local-Area Networks 

You need both special hardware and software for 
local-area networks, although basic needs can be met 
by standard Apple System software. The prime hard- 
ware choice is AppleTalk, which connects as many as 
25 Macs. AppleTalk connectors plug into the Mac s 
printer port, interfacing with electronics already built 
in. ApjileTalk cards are available also tor IBM PCis and 
compatibles. 

AjipleTalk, first used to connect multiple Macs 
with a single DiserWriter, has simple soft- 
ware requirements: the Control Panel desk 
acces.sory to turn the network on, the ap- 
propriate printer driver, and some routines 
in the System hie. New products allow shar- 
ing of modems, although costs make this 
most attractive for high-speed modems. 

Others products, like hardw'are servers 
from Solana Electronics and Abaton Tech- 
nology, allow connection of multiple mo- 
dems to an Applelalk cable. 

Computers on local-area networks run 
multiuser applications (such as database 
programs) that let them access files on the 
server. .Most file-sharing software can do without a 
dedicated file server, and TOPS al low's configurations 
that enable Macs and PCs to .share files, though with 
limitations. \bu need softw'are like MacLink Plus or 
Apple’s Data Exclxni^e to read formats for otiier PCs. 
Some programs, including Microsoft's Wordm^X Excel, 
and Living Videotext’s More, also have limited data-ex- 
change capabilities, as do the desk acce.ssories Mock 
Terminal and SideKick. 



Sharing information 
and resources with 
personal computers, 
minicomputers, 
mainframes, and other 
Macintoshes 



Software 

The range of telecommunications software is 
broad enough to meet virtually all needs, and i:>ro- 
grams vary w idely in ease of use and flexibility. Some, 
such as PModem or TermWorks, are simple to use be- 
cause they offer few choices and their defaults suffice 
for most ordinary needs. Others, like Smartcom II, 
combine a more friendly interface w'ith power, but pre- 
sent an array of choices that can be bewildering. Users 
familiar with communications may prefer a program 
like Red Ryder, w'hich provides extensive control with- 
out the overhead imposed by graphic interfaces. 

More powerful programs, including iriTalk, Mh 
crophone, Red Ryder, and Smartcom II, can automate 
communications by executing preprogrammed rou- 
tines to log onto a service. Microphone and Red Ryder 
can even write a routine by recording your actions 
during a session. 

Most communications software is for general pur- 
poses, but some programs (like and Dow 

jone.s’s StraightTalk) are written for limited apjolica- 
tions, such as connecting to specific .services. Gener- 



Trends 

Terminal emulators are reasonably stable, w'ith 
powerful programs available from discount houses for 
under $100. Modems are in transition, w'ith 1200-baud 
models dropping in price, 2400 baud becoming com- 
monplace, and higher speeds looming on the horizon. 
However, the appeal of raw speed is tempered by the 
lack of standards and by questions about phone-line 
quality, w4iich sometimes can impair 2400-baud irans- 
missk^n. Apple and third parties are developing con- 
nections to the Ethernet backbone, for access to VAX 
and other mainframes. 

Netw'orks are booming, with file-serving software 
proliferating rapidly, 'fhe open architectures of the SE 
and Mac II should accelerate the trend, because they 
can accommodate cards to connect w ith local-area 
netw'orks, such as the 10-megabaud Ethernet, that are 
much faster than AppleTalk. The growah of multiuser 
softw'are also encourages netw'ork development. \et 
hardware and softw'are costs remain high enough to 
warrant caution before committing yourself to a 
network. 

-JeffHecht 



Macworld 21S 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Communications Software 


1st Desk Systems 


IstGATE 


495.00 


Remote database/bulletin-board system. Req. 512K. 


Aegis Development, Inc. 


MacMail 


39.95 


E-mail system. Address book w/macros. 


DA Systems. Inc. 


DASnet 


80.00 


Distribution service for 18 E-mail systems. Monthly charge 
for bus., $80; for individuals, $4.50. 


DowJones& Co., Inc. 


Desktop Express 


149.00 


Icon-oriented com. program for MCI Mail. 


Dow Jones & Co., Inc. 


Dow Jones Spreadsheet Link 


99.00 


Links spreadsheets, News/Retrieval. Req. Straight Talk. 


Dow Jones & Co., Inc. 


Dow Jones Straight Talk 


95.00 


Auto-connect to News/Retrieval. 


Free Soft 


Red Ryder 


40.00 


Telecom, support for MacBinary, Kermit, Xmodem. 
Automates functions. Hayes-compatible. Req. 51 2K. 


Free Soft 


Red Ryder Host 


60.00 


Customizable bulletin-board system. Req. 51 2K, Hayes- 
compatible modem. 


Interactive Network 
Technologies 


InterMail 


349.95 


Integrated desktop com./E-mail system. Req. 51 2K, 
AppleTalk. $349.95 up. 


Linkware Corp. 


LinkWare MacConnection 


300.00 


Host-based software. Connects Mac w/IBM, DEC, HP, UNIX 
computers. Req. 51 2K. $300 up. 


MicroGraphic Images 


MegaTalk 


99.50 


E-mail software for AppleTalk. Enhanced features 
w/MegaScreen Video Systems. Req. 51 2K. 


Peripheral Computers & 
Supplies, Inc. 


TekPRINT 


79.00 


Corollary w/VersaTerm. Prints on HP-type plotters. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Prometheus Products, Inc. 


ProCom 


49.00 


Full text editor/macro generator. 


Shana Enterprises 


Macintosh Interactive 
Display System 


99.00 


Interactive demonstration terminal w/animation. For 
exhibits/trade shows. Req. 51 2K. 


Software Ventures, Inc. 


Microphone 


149.00 


Auto, scripting. Req. 512K, Hayes-compatible modem. 


THINK Technologies, Inc. 


InBox/Mac Personal Connection 


125.00 


Additional connection to AppleTalk network running InBox. 
Req. 51 2K, InBox/Mac starter kit. 


THINK Technologies, Inc. 


InBox/Mac Starter Kit 


350.00 


Message center/3 personal connections for AppleTalk; 
E-mail/file transfer. Req. 512K. 


File Transfer/Conversion 


1st Desk Systems 


IstPORT 


295.00 


File conversion; data com.; text editor; data transport. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


AppleLine 3270 Fite Transler 


99.00 


File transfer bet. IBM 3270/Mac. Req. FT/TSO or FT/CMS 
host-based file-transfer support software. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


MacLink Plus 


195.00 


Mac/IBM PC file transfer/translation. Req. 512K. 


Communications Research 
Group 


Blast 


150.00 


ASCII/binary file transfer bet. systems using Blast. 
Req. 512K. 


Computer Applications, Inc. 


II in a Mac 


149.95 


Lets Apple II software run on Mac. Converts Apple II files. 
Req. 512K. 


DataViz 


MacLinkPlus/NBI 


495.00 


File transfer/translation. Built-in com. to NBI system. 
Req. 512K. 


DataViz 


MacLinkPlus/PC 


195.00 


File transfer/translation. Built-in PC com. Req. 512K. 


DataViz 


MacLinkPlus/Translators 


195.00 


File translator for Apple Fite Exchange Utility. Req. 512K. 



216 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


DataViz 


MacLinkPlus/VS 


350.00 


File transfer/translation. Built-in com. to Wang VS. 
Reg. 512K. 


Diversified I/O, Inc. 


LaserLink 


79.95 


Lets IBM PC/compatibles print to LaserWriter on 
AppleTalk. 


Dove Computer Corp. 


FastNet 


call 


Allows Mac to function as end node on VAX network. 


General Computer Corp. 


HyperNet 


299.00 


File-serving software. Permits sharing of hard disks, files, 
appins. Req. 51 2K, AppleTalk. 


Kandu Software Corp. 


CADMOVER 


495.00 


Reads IGES, MiniCAD, MacDraw files. IGES support includes 
multiple drawings. Req. 51 2K. 


Menlo Business 
Systems, Inc. 


MAX 


1295.00 


Untended file fransfer bef. Tandem mainframe/local 
intelllgenf workstation or node. Req. 512K. 


MICRO CAD/CAM, Inc. 


IGES 


500.00 


Graphics translator/importer from nonMac systems. 
Req. 512K.* 


MicroSolutions 


MatchMaker 


149.00 


Interfaces IBM PC w/Mac ext. drive. Subdirectories 
supported on HFS diskettes. 


Oceanside Software 


ThinkTank-ReportTime 


49.95 


Converts ThinkTank files fo word processor files; adds 
MORE labeling features. 


Odesta Corp. 


Helix VMX 


2500.00 


Lets DH II appins. run on DEC/VAX VMS w/Mac 
workstation. Req. dedicated Mac Plus to Mac 11. $2500 up. 


Phillips Software 


File Converter 


24.95 


Searches/replaces text to 400K in 20 secs. Adds/deletes 
tabs, line feeds, spaces, more. 


Tangent Technologies, Ltd. 


PC MacBridge Plus 


375.00 


Short card/sottware. Allows IBM PC to share AppleTalk 
network and to print PostScript. Req. 256K. 


Tangent Technologies, Ltd. 


PC MacServe 


100.00 


IBM PC-based client for MacServe. Soffware, $100; 
soffware/card, $375. 


Tangent Technologies, Ltd. 


PC MacText 


50.00 


Converfs IBM PC files to Mac files. 


Tangent Technologies, Ltd. 


Tangent Share 


150.00 


IBM PC-based AFP client for AppleShare. Req. 256K. 
Soffware/card, $350. 


TeleTypesetting Co. 


MicroSetter 


995.00 


Converfs PosfScript output from Mac appins. to 
nonPostScript typesetters. 


THINK Technologies, Inc. 


InBox/PC Personal Connection 


195.00 


Lets IBM PC com. w/Mac or IBM PC on AppleTalk 
running InBox. 


Touchstone Corporation 


DoubleTalk 


100.00 


Lets 2 programs run concurrently. Transfers IBM PC files to 
Mac white running other programs. 


Touchstone Corporation 


UNIHOST 


395.00 


Runs on UNIX-based machines as command server for PC 
Works or MacLine. $395-$995. 


Touchstone Corporation 


UNIHOST/VMS 


1295.00 


Runs on VAX under VMS as command server for PC Works 
or MacLine. 


White Pine Software, Inc. 


Reggie 


99.00 


Converts Mac graphics to DEC-compatible formats (Regis. 
SIXEL). 


White Pine Software, Inc. 


VMac S 


399.00 


Xmodem file transfer for VAX using MacBinary formaf. 
Multiuser, $999. 



Maworicl 217 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


LAN: Products and Services 






3Com Corp. 


3+ for the Macintosh 


1050.00 


Network operating system. Lets Mac/IBM PC share 
files/printers. E-mail. Req. 512K. 5+ users, $2100. 


3Com Corp. 


3Server3 


5995.00 


Network server for peripheral and info, sharing/backup, 
com., coordination. Req. 512K. 


Abaton Technology Corp. 


MultiTalk 


695.00 


AppleTalk-port server. Expands network. Shares 
3 asynchronous serial peripherals. Req. 512K. 


Alisa System 


TSSnet 


329.00 


Allows Mac to function as a DECnet node. 


Apple Computer. Inc. 


AppleShare File Server 


799.00 


Converts dedicated Mac/hard disk drive(s) into file server 
for AppleTalk. Req. 512KE. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


AppleTalk Connector Kit 


75.00 


Connection/access to other computers/shared peripherals. 
Req. 2 Macs or MS-DOS w/AppleTalk PC cord. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


EtherTalk Interface Card 


699.00 


Provides access to Ethernet network. For Mac II. 


Cenlram Systems West. Inc. 


TOPS 


189.00 


Distributed file server for Mac. Mixed-computer capability. 
Req. 512K.* 


Centram Systems West, Inc. 


TOPS Repeater 


189.00 


Increases AppleTalk-network flexibility. Retransmits 
incoming signals at full voltage. 


Centram Systems West, Inc. 


TOPS Star 


1500.00 


Enlarges AppleTalk network; transforms bus 
network to stars. 


Corvus Systems, Inc. 


Constellation III for Macintosh 


495.00 


Network operating system for Mac on OmniNet. 
Req. cabling. 


Corvus Systems, Inc. 


OmniNet 


249.00 


Transporter-network interface for Mac. OCS-II Bus Node 
Kit, $45 per new station hookup. 


El duPont, Inc. 


Fiber Optic LAN for AppleTalk 


700.00 


Converter box; wall plates; fiber-optic cabling; concentrator 
for star topology. Req. AppleTalk. $700-$1100 per node. 


Farrallon Computing 


PhoneNET System 


1768.00 


Extends AppleTalk up to several miles w/existing phone 
wires, connectors, cables, accessories. Repeater; Connector; 
Plus Connector; StarController. 


Hayes Microcomputer 
Products, Inc. 


InterBridge 


799.00 


Remote or local bridge for AppleTalk. 


Infosphere 


MacServe 


250.00 


File/printer-sharing software. Runs in background w/o 
dedicated hardware. Req. 51 2K, hard disk for server. 
$250 ea. 


Infosphere 


ComServe 


195.00 


Shares modems, plotters, other serial devices. 
Req.512K. $195 ea. 


Kinetics, Inc. 


EtherSC 


1250.00 


SCSI Ethernet controller. Direct connection to Ethernet. 
Req. cable. 


Kinetics, Inc. 


FastPath 


2500.00 


AppleTalk-to-Elhernet gateway. Supports bridging, 
TCP/IP, connections to DEC/UNIX computers. Req. cables. 


La Cie Ltd. 


SilverServer 


99.99 


Volume server over AppleTalk or modem; modem server over 
AppleTalk. 


Laser Connection 


0-talk 


49.00 


Connects IBM PCs/Macs to laser printers on AppleTalk. 



218 NovemlKT 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Lutzky-Baird Associates 


UltraOffice 


1500.00 


UNIX host for info.-mgl. network. Lets Mac/PC share 
inlo./syslem resources. Req. 51 2K, UNIX Host. 1-9 Mac 
hookups, $195 ea. 


Microfinancial Corp. 


FLEXSERVE 


299.00 


Database server. Allows FLEXWARE applns. to share 
database w/VAX, IMB, Mac. Req. 51 2K, dedicated Mac. 


Mirror Technologies 


ModemShare 


200.00 


Software-based modem server for AppleTalk. 


Northern Telecom. Inc. 


Meridian SL-1 


call 


Integrated voice/data PBX. Req. 422 Interface. 


Ollice Talk 


OfficeTalk 


50.00 


International com./E-mail network. Req. 51 2K, 2 disk drives, 
modem. $50 up. 


Pacer Software, Inc. 


pcLINK 


2000.00 


Ethernet support for VAX (VMS/ULTRIX), Stratus, UNIX 
systems. Terminal emulator; file transfer. 5-user license. 


Reach Technologies, Inc. 


The Nucleus 


1595.00 


AppleShare-compatible file server. Req. 51 2K. 


Relax Technology, Inc. 


Backup 1 


399.95 


Memory backup; 300 watts; switches in 4-6 ms. 
Backup 2, $599.95. 


Shiva Corp. 


NetBridge 


399.00 


Connects 2 AppleTalk networks; Increases number of 
computers/division of networks. 


Shiva Corp. 


NetSerial X232 


399.00 


Serial port for AppleTalk-peripheral sharing. Req. 512KE. 


Solana Electronics 


C-Server 


595.00 


Connects serial devices to AppleTalk network. Free-standing 
node; 3 ports;19.2K baud. Req. 512K. 


Solana Electronics 


l-Server 


695.00 


AppleTalk bridge. Transparent to system. Req. 512K. 


Solana Electronics 


R-Server 


595.00 


Gateway for remote access; bridges networks; free-standing 
node; 19.2K baud. Req. 512K. 


Sunol Systems, Inc. 


Network Multiplexer 


295.00 


Gateway for mulfiple networks, including AppleTalk/ 
IBM PC-Net. Req. 51 2K. 


Sunol Systems, Inc. 


Sun Disk 


1595.00 


Large capacity HD/LAN including file-serving software. 
Interface cord optional. Req. 512K. $1595-$7495. 


Videx, Inc. 


Mail Center 


299.00 


Lets AppleTalk users send/receive mail. Req. 512K, 
2 or more Macs on network. 


Modems 


Anchor Automation. Inc. 


Lightning 24 


499.00 


300/1200/2400 baud. Hayes-compatible. Req. RS232 cable. 


Anchor Automation, Inc. 


Signalman Express 


399.00 


300/1200 baud. Hayes-compatible. 'S' register status; help 
screen; 2 phone jacks. Req. RS232 cable. 


Anchor Aulomation, Inc. 


VolksModem 12 


199.00 


300/1200 baud. Aulo-dial/answer. Bell 212A-compatible, 
pulse/tone dialing, 5 'S' registers. Req. Volks cable. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple Personal Modem 


399.00 


1200/300 baud. Hayes-compatible. Microphone. Req. 512K. 


AST Research 


AST 2X9600 


1499.00 


MNP data compression. Microphone software. Req. 51 2K. 


AST Research 


AST-1200 


399.00 


1200 baud. Hayes-compatible. Microphone software. 
Req. 51 2K. 


AST Research 


AST-2400 


599.00 


2400 baud. Hayes-compatible. Microphone software. 
Req. 51 2K. 


BIZCOMP Corporation 


IntelliModem 2400 


499.00 


300/1200/2400 baud. Ext. volume control, DIP switch, line- 
quality display. Req. cables, com. software. 



Macworld 219 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


BIZCOMP Corporation 


IntelliModem EXT 


349.00 


300/1200 baud. Ext. volume control, DIP switch, line-quality 
display. Req. cables, com. software. 


Computer Friends. Inc. 


Mercury Modem 


149.00 


300/1200 baud. Hayes-compatible. Call-progress detection; 
status lights; speaker. 


Hayes Microcomputer 
Products, Inc. 


Smartcom II lor the Mac 


149.00 


File transfers; auto, execution of stored instructions; voice/ 
data transmission; VT100/102, VT52, TTY emulation. 


Hayes Microcomputer 
Products, Inc. 


Smartmodem 300 


199.00 


Auto-dial/answer 0- to 300-bps modem. Req. Smartcom II. 


Hayes Microcomputer 
Products. Inc. 


Smarlmodem 1200 


449.00 


Complete hardware/soflware com. Cable. 


Hayes Microcomputer 
Products, Inc. 


Smartmodem 2400 


599.00 


Auto-dial/answer 2400/1200 baud, 0- to 300-bps 
asynchronous/synchronous modem. Req. Smartcom II. 


Hayes Microcomputer 
Products, Inc. 


Smartmodem 9600 


1299.00 


Auto-dial/answer 9600-bps asynchronous/synchronous 
ext. modem. Req. Smartcom II. 


MacProducts USA 


Magic Modem 


149.00 


1200/300 baud. Hayes-compatible. Wall mount. 


MacProducts USA 


Magic Modem 1200 


99.00 


1200/300 baud. Hayes-compatible. Wall mount. 2400-baud 
version, $199. 


Microcom, Inc. 


AX\1200C 


599.00 


Supports data compression B1 1 1 03 at 300 bps; B1 1 21 2A at 
1200 bps; CCITT V.22 at 1200 bps; more. Req. cable. 


Microcom, Inc. 


AX\2400 


699.00 


Same as AXM200C plus CCITT V.22 at 2400 bps, 
MNP Level 4. Req. cable. 


Microcom, Inc. 


AX\2400C 


799.00 


Same as AX\2400 plus MNP Level 5. Req. cable. 


Microcom, Inc. 


AX\9624C 


1399.00 


Same as AX\2400 plus V.29, MNP Level 6. Req. cable. 


Personal Computer 
Peripherals Corp. 


Optional MacBottom Modem 


200.00 


300/1200 baud. Hayes-compatible. Auto-dial/answer; SCSI 
hard disk option. Req. 51 2K. 


Prometheus Products, Inc. 


MacFax 


1195.00 


Group 3 facsimile modem. Direct transmittal screen to FAX. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Prometheus Products, Inc. 


ProModem 1200 Expandable 


349.00 


1200-bps modem. 512K E-mail/security buffer optional. 
2400-bps model, $499. 


Prometheus Products. Inc. 


ProModem 1200 G 


249.00 


300/1200/2400 baud. Hayes-compatible. Call-progress 
detection. 51 2K buffer optional. 


Prometheus Products, Inc. 


ProModem 2400 


499.00 


300/1200/2400 baud. Hayes-compatible. Call-progress 
detection. 512K buffer optional. 


Promeltieus Products. Inc. 


ProModem 2400 G 


399.00 


300/1200/2400 baud. Hayes-compatible. Call-progress 
detection. 


Prometheus Products, Inc. 


ProModem 2400 SE 


499.00 


2400-bps int. modem for Mac SE. Req. 51 2K. 


Shiva Corp. 


NetModem VI 200 


599.00 


1200 baud. Hayes-compatible. Shared over AppleTalk. 
Req. 512KE. 


Visionary Elecironics, Inc. 


Visionary Megabyte 


495.00 


Memory buffer to send/receive messages; Xmodem transfer; 
more. Req. Hayes-compatible software. 


Worthington Babcock, Inc. 


Turbolink 1200 


149.00 


300/1200 baud. Hayes-compatible. W/software and 
cable, $179. 



220 November 19«7 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Terminal Emulators 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


AppleLine 


1295.00 


Coaxial adapter. Lets Mac double as IBM terminal. 


Apple Computer. Inc. 


MacTerminal 


125.00 


Mac-to-Mac transfer. Accesses mainframes, 
minicomputers, telecom, services. Req. Apple- or Hayes- 
compatible modem. 


Avatar Technologies, Inc. 


MacMainFrame 


1195.00 


Emulates IBM 3270 terminal. SE model, $795. 


Centram Systems West, Inc. 


TOPS Terminal 


189.00 


AppleTalk link to TCP/IP-based networks. Req. 512K. 


InI'l Computer Consultants 


MAC3000 


150.00 


Emulates HP2624, HP2392, DEC VT100, IBM3278, TTY 
terminals. Text/binary transfer. 


Invention Software Corp. 


Communications Extender 


125.00 


Initialization routines; serial-port mgt.; file-transfer protocol; 
serial-data capture; time-activity integration. 


Kaz Business Systems 


FrontEnd 


120.00 


Emulates Data General/VTIOO terminal in Mac-like 
environment. Req. 51 2K. Req. Tandem connection. 


Menlo Business 
Systems, Inc. 


Mac Menlo 


395.00 


Terminal emulation w/Mac capabilities. Req. 512K. 


Mesa Graphics 


TextTerm+Graphics 


195.00 


Standard text/graphics terminal. Com. w/mainframes, 
minicomputers, bulletin boards. E-mail systems. Req. 512K. 


Metaresearch. Inc. 


GriffinTerminal 


99.00 


Emulates TEK 4012/VT100 terminals. 


Metaresearch, Inc. 


TekniColor 


299.00 


Emulates TEK 4012 or TEK 4100 terminal; color or b/w 
modes. Req. 51 2K, Super Chroma for color. 


NetSolutions 


Mac-3000 


150.00 


Emulates IBM 3278, DEC VT100, DEC VT52, TFY, HP-3000 
terminals. 


Palantir Software, Inc. 


inTalk 


195.00 


Terminal emulation/personal com. Task automation. 


Peripheral Computers & 
Supplies. Inc. 


VersaTerm 


99.00 


Texl/graphics terminal emulation/com. Req. 51 2K. 


Peripheral Computers & 
Supplies, Inc. 


VersaTerm PRO 


295.00 


Text/tektronix color-graphics terminal emulation/com. 
Req. 512K. 


Touchstone Corporation 


MacLine 


145.00 


VT100/52 ANSI or TTY terminal emulator. Bidirectional file 
transfer bet. IBM PC/Mac or UNIX. Req. 512K, serial port. 


Touchstone Corporation 


PC Works 


195.00 


VT100/52 ANSI or TTY terminal emulator. Bidirectional file 
transfer bet. IBM PC/Mac or UNIX. Req. 150K, serial port. 


Tri-Data 


Netway 1000A 


3195.00 


3274/3278 terminal emulator. Up to 16 users. Req. 512K, 
AppleTalk, or PhoneNet. 


Tymiabs Corporation 


Mac 2624 


199.00 


Emulates HP block mode CRTs. File transfer w/text; graphic 
conversion. Req. 51 2K. $199-$100 per user for 1-50+ users. 


Walker Richer & Quinn 


Reflection 


199.00 


Emulates HP 2392; background processing w/switcher; 
error checking. 


White Pine Software, Inc. 


Mac 240 


199.00 


DEC VT240 text/graphics terminal emulator. Req. 512K. 



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A s the Macintosh has increased in 
power, mass storage devices have 
grown more popular. When I IPS 
(Hierarchical File System) soft- 
ware and SCSI (Small Computer 
Systems Interface) hardware over- 
came the technical difficulties (^f 
making a hard disk for the Mac, 
many companies entered the mar- 
ket. Speed and convenience are 
the primary advantages of hard 
disks, which run faster than floppy disks and hold files 
too large for them. You can also avoid swapping floppy 
disks and can store all your applications and files in 
one place, while retrieving the space each flopjw uses 
to store its individual System and application files. 

There are essentially tw^ types of storage devices. 
Archival storage-like WORM (>XYite Once, Read Many ) 
devices, tape drives, or video disk players- is for large 
amounts of unmodifiable {read only) data, such as 
years of employee records or an encyclopedia. Modi- 
fiable Winchester hard disks are widely used for daily 
applications and tasks. Most devices store information 
magnetically, in the same way a cassette tape or a 
floppy disk does. 




Types of Storage 

Hard disk is now used informally to mean any- 
thing other than a floppy disk, but actually it is a .set of 
ridged metal platters on which a magnetic 
head rides back and forth to write or read 
information. Hard disks are delicate be- 
cause the head can crash into the platter 
very easily, causing damage akin to a re- 
cord needle scratching a record. Most 
drives include a utility program that parks 
the heads to protect the disk, and the bet- 
ter ones do this automatically. Although 
most hard disks are fixed in their cases, 
some are removable; these, however, are 
relatively expensive and are also sensi- 
tive to shock. 

Other devices serving the same func- 
tion include Bernoulli drives, large floppy 
disks, and WORM drives, all of wliich .store 
numerous files for both programs and data. 
Bernoulli technology is ba.sed on a thin 
floppy disk riding on a steady stream of air. 
Its removable cartridges are reasonably priced, .so the\' 
can be used a.s large floppy disks. But Bernoulli de- 
vices themselves, such as the lOmega Bernoulli Box 
lO-MO, are co.stly; moreover, the individual cartridges 
go bad and must be replaced more frequently than 
floppy disks. 

Similar technology has been used to create large 
3'/2-inch floppy disks like tho.se from Jasmine and Ber- 
ing. Like a Bernoulli sy.stem, this is good for people 
who create libraries of digitized art or .sounds, and 
in an office where people share a hard disk, each 
person can have a large floppy for confidentiality 



224 



November 1987 



and convenience. 

The advent of lasers and digital recording leclinol- 
ogy has given WORM drives, introduced by LoDown, 
the ability to write and read information to an optical 
disk, but they can t be modihed. This may seem im- 
practical because disks fill up quicklv; but they can be 
removed and replaced, and they hold 10 to 80 times 
as much as a standard hard disk. However, WORM 
technology is expensive. 

Like WORMs, a video disk player (similar to a VCR 
without a recording facility) can archive large amounts 
of data and offers easy, fast accessibility, but because it 
also interfaces with television and similar hardware, it 
is useful primarily for storing graphic and sound data. 
Video players have not yet evolved sufficiently for daily 
tasks with a Mac, but Apple s HyperCard 'A\ou\<A start 
an upsurge and relinement in them. 

How to Choose 

While you can get hard disks that hold from 10 to 
900 megabytes ( MB) of storage, 20MB is the most pop- 
ular size, and a number of dependable products are 
available. However, additions in storage space gener- 
ally give \'ou more speed at a lower rate of price in- 
crease. For a 20MB hard disk, costs range from S570 to 
S1300. Jasmine offers some of the best ratios of price to 
performance, if you don't count additional software. 

On the 128K and 512K Macs, hard disks are con- 
nected through the external drive port or the serial 
port. Apple, Paradise, and MacBottom still make useful 
serial drives, but unless you hav^ a 128K or 512K, there 
is no reason to consider one. SCSI drives, the standard 
connection for storage devices on the Mac Plus and be- 
yond, can access at a much faster rate. For older Macs, 
you can install an external SCSI port for about $100. 

Since each type of Mac has a different SCSI driver 
on which the .speed of the hard disk depends, initial- 
ize your di.sk on the machine you'll use it with; for ex- 
ample, you can't maximize the speed advantage of 
a Mac 11 with a hard di.sk initialized on a Plus. The 
DataFrame 20 and 40X13 drives are exceptions to this 
rule. And not all hard disks work on every Macintosh 
without being reformatted. The DataFrame 20 comes 
close; it can move from the Plus to the SE or the Mac 11 
with no drop in performance. 

Another option is to place a hard disk inside the 
Mac, making it easier to transport. Apple approves in- 
.stallation of third-parry devices in the SE and the II, 
both of which have strong power supplies designed to 
take the extra load. You can purchase internal hard 
disks for the earlier models, but they require the addi- 
tion of a fan and may strain the power supph; leading 
to burnout. Fans are the .source of mo.st of the noi.se 
from .storage devices, but this is not a primary consid- 
eration Linle.ss you prize silence (if so, you should 
search for a disk with an acceptable sound level ). 

Other Considerations 

Before you choose a SCSI device, weigh its sjieed, 
price/'performance ratio, warranty, and the reliability 



of its manufacturer (several companies have gone out 
of busine.ss in the recent past). Hard disks fall more 
often than floppy disks, making the warranty worth 
noting; three months has been the norm, but more 
vendors now offer a full year. 

Also, some hard-disk conligurations are incom- 
patible with other hardware, .so check carefully to 
make sure yours agree. And not all hard disks are fast 
enough for .speedy networking or hie serving. 

Software is often sold separately. The DataFrame 
hard disks include print-spooling, backup, and disk- 
management Litilities-which partially accounts for 
their higher price tags. Ja.smine and others include 
public domain software. 

Managing a Hard Disk 

It’s easy for a hard disk to become an electronic 
me.ss. The time you take to organize your folders will 
repay it.self by making Hies easy to locate later. Utility 
programs such as Finder alternatives and catalogers 
can help you in this area. 

When you acce.ss a docu- 
ment repeatedly on a hard disk, 
each time you save it the docu- 
ment fragments slightly, eventu- 
ally reducing disk speed and ef- 
ficiency. When this happens, 
utilities like Disk Express help 
reintegrate your Hies and retain 
disk speed. 

I'requent backup is nece.ssary to protect against a 
hard di.sk’s su.scepiibility to sy.stem crashes; after 
you've made signiHcant investments of time and effort 
to load your applications and Hies, the la.st thing you 
want is to lo.se it all. It's best to back up the entire disk 
as well as original Hies. Fortunately, a tape drive can 
provide backup; usually one tape will hold the con- 
tents of an entire hard disk. A number of tape drives 
are now available, priced between $1300 and $1500. 

The Future 

The trend is toward offering more storage with- 
out corresponding price increases. In addition, the 
amount of information that can be stored on small 
lloppy disks will grow. WDR.M drives should come 
down in price and become more practical for individu- 
al users. Beyond that looms the po.ssibility of large op- 
tical di.sks that can be both written and era.sed; these 
may someda\' replace hard disks entirely. 

With the Mac II’s versatility and the coming of 
UNIX, the Mac is entering new markets, such as engi- 
neering and .science, b\' connecting to mainframe.s. 
RAW caches will work with hard disks, like CMS’s 
320MB Power Tt)wer (at the high end of the market, 
$13,000). Yet even if you don't require a huge amount 
of storage space, a proliferating variety of hard disks is 
available. The difficulty in choosing is due not to lack 
of options but to .so many. 

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Keep your data on hand 
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tape drives, removable 
media, and backup software 



.Maavorkl 225 






SIOHAGE 



r 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Hard Disks 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple Hard Disks 


1299.00 


HD 20SC: 20MB ext. hard disk for Mac Plus lo Mac II. 
40MB, $1999; BOMB, $3199. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh Hard Disk 20 


1199.00 


20MB ext. hard disk for Mac 512K/Plus. Fits under Mac. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh Internal Hard Disks 


999.00 


20SC; 20MB int. hard disk for Mac SE/II. For Mac II only; 
40MB, $1599; BOMB, $2699. 


AST Research 


AST 2000 


1995.00 


20MB ext. hard disk/20MB tape backup for Mac 512KE up. 
70MB/60MB, $5295. 


AST Research 


FAST-20 


1199.00 


20MB ext. hard disk/20MB tape backup for Mac 512KE up. 
70MB/60MB, $5295. 


Bering Industries. Inc. 


Totem 20MB 


795.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk. 


Bering Industries, Inc. 


Totem Combination 
Hard Disk/Bernoulli 


2295.00 


20MB hard disk/20MB Bernoulli. 40MB/20MB, $2995; 
B0MB/20MB, $3995. 


CMS Enhancements. Inc. 


Compact S40 


1495.00 


40MB SCSI hard disk subsystem. 29 ms access, 
self-parking head. 


CMS Enhancements. Inc. 


Compact SC20a 


795.00 


Ext. 20MB SCSI hard disk subsystem. 65 ms access; cache. 


CMS Enhancements, Inc. 


Compact SC40a 


1195.00 


Ext. 40MB SCSI hard disk subsystem. 65 ms access; cache. 


CMS Enhancements, Inc. 


High Capacity Series 


2995.00 


140MB-320MB SCSI hard disk subsystems. 16 ms access. 
$2995-$5695. 


CMS Enhancements, Inc. 


MacStack Series 


795.00 


SD20, 65 ms access; SD43/80, 28 ms access; self-parking 
heads. Req. SCSI interface. $795-$1295. 


CMS Enhancements, Inc. 


PRO ll/i Series 


1195.00 


Inf. 40MB-80MB subsystems for Mac II. 28 ms access; 
self-parking heads. $1195-$1695. 


CMS Enhancements, Inc. 


PR040-SE/i 


1395.00 


Int. 40MB hard disk subsystem for Mac SE. 29 ms access; 
self-parking heads. 


CMS Enhancements. Inc. 


PT320/T 


12,995.00 


320MB hard disk subsystem; BOMB tape backup; 4MB 
cache; .5 ms access. Req. SCSI interface. 


CMS Enhancements. Inc. 


PT640/T 


16,995.00 


640MB hard disk subsystem; BOMB tape backup; 4MB 
cache; .5 ms access time. Req. SCSI interface. 


CMS Enhancements, Inc. 


TS40 


995.00 


40MB SCSI tape backup subsystem. 


Corvus Systems, Inc. 


OmniDrive Network Server 


2795.00 


20MB hard disk w/built-in network server for OmniNet. 
40MB, $4995; 70MB, $6795; 126MB, $8995. 


Cutting Edge, Inc. 


30 MG SCSI 


599.00 


30MB ext. hard disk. Daisy-chainable to 7 disks. Req. 512K. 


First Class Peripherals 


The Sider C46 


1795.00 


40MB SCSI hard disk w/60MB tape subsystem. Req. 1MB. 


First Class Peripherals 


The Sider Model D2 


695.00 


20MB SCSI hard disk. 40MB, $995. 


FWB Soltware, Inc. 


hammer Tower 


15,000.00 


600MB-1200MB chassis towers for Mac SE/II. 16 ms access. 
Backup/recovery software. To $19,000. 


FWB Software, Inc. 


hammerOI 


2695.00 


91MB int. hard disk for Mac II. 18 ms access. 


FWB Software, Inc. 


hammer155 


3695.00 


155MB ext. SCSI hard disk for Mac II. 16.5 ms access. 
Backup/recovery software. 300MB, $4895. 


General Computer Corp. 


HyperDrive FI/40 


1599.00 


40MB int. hard disk for Mac SE w/utility software. 



226 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


General Computer Corp. 


HyperOrive FX/20 


1199.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk for Mac Plus to Mac II. Utility 
softvrare. 40MB, $1799. 


Jasmine Technologies, Inc. 


BackPac 40 


1299.00 


Rear-mounting, 40MB ext. SCSI hard disk for Mac Plus. 


Jasmine Technologies, Inc. 


Direct Drive 20 


649.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk. Fits under Mac. 40MB, $999; 
50MB, $1159; 80MB, $1399; 160MB, $2899. 


Jasmine Technologies, Inc. 


InnerDrive 90/11 


1499.00 


Int. 90MB hard disk. 16 ms access. 9MB public-domain 
software/utilities included. For Mac II. 


La Cie Ltd. 


Cirrus 20D 


599.00 


20MB ext. hard disk w/password-supporting software. 
30MB/40MB/60MB models avail. 


La Cie Ltd. 


Slot Machine 20 


449.00 


20MB int. hard disk for Mac SE w/com. software. 
30MB/40MB/60MB models avail. 


Levco 


OverDrive 20 


1399.00 


20MB SCSI int. hard disk for Mac Plus. Daisy-chainable 
to 24 drives. 40MB, $2699. 


LoDOWN 


LoDOWN 20 


995.00 


20MB hard disk for Mac Platinum Plus to Mac II. 

40MB, $1995; 60MB, $2495; 80MB, $3200; 155MB, $3995; 
250MB, $6595. 


LoDOWN 


LoDOWN Combo 20-20 


1795.00 


20MB hard disk/20MB tape streamer. 20MB/50MB, $2195; 
30MB/20MB, $2095; 30MB/50MB, $2495; 40MB/20MB, 
$2695; 40MB/50MB, $2995. 


LoDOWN 


Optical Combo 30-20 


3665.00 


30MB hard disk/20MB tape streamer w/CD ROM Drive. 
30MB/50MB, $3890; 40MB/20MB, $4275; 40MB/50MB, 
$4500; 60MB/20MB, $4495; 60MB/50MB, $4720; 
80MB/20MB, $5270; 80MB/50MB, $5495. 


Logic Array 


ProAPP20S 


795.00 


20MB ext. hard disk w/software. 40MB, $1295. 


Logic Array 


ProAPP40SEi 


1295.00 


Int. hard disk for Mac SE. Retains both floppy disk drives. 


MacPeak Systems 


CIERRA 


2695.00 


40MB SCSI hard disk/40MB tape backup. Mac 51 2K up. 


MacPeak Systems 


Plus-20 


1095.00 


20MB SCSI hard disk. 30MB, $1295; 50MB, $2195; 
80MB, $2695; 160MB, $3995. 


MacProducts USA 


Magic BOOK 


199.00 


Ext. disk drive. LED; disk eject; single or double sided. 


MacProducts USA 


Magic 20 


449.00 


Int. hard disk for Mac II w/utility backup software. 
20MB-91MB,$449-$1495. 


MacProducts USA 


MagicDrive Series 


649.00 


Auto, error detection/correction. Req. 512K. 
20MB-300MB, $649-$3799. 


MASS MICRO 


MASS STORAGE 


589.00 


20MB ext. hard disk. 3-way surge protect; shock absorbers. 
Built-in modem optional. 40MB, $799. 


MDIdeas 


HD-20 


1095.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk. Backup software; cables. 
30MB, $1595. 


Micah Storage Systems 


Micah Drive 20AT 


1295.00 


Int. hard disk for Mac 51 2K to Mac II. Adds third drive to 
Mac SE. 45MB, $1395; 90MB, $2395. 


Micah Storage Systems 


Micah Drive 30XT 


1595.00 


30MB SCSI ext. hard disk. Fits under Mac. 45MB, $1895; 
90MB, $2595. 


Micah Storage Systems 


Micah Drive 45/40XT 


2995.00 


45MB ext. hard disk/40MB tape backup. 


Microtech Peripherals, Inc. 


Micro MAC 30 


689.00 


30MB Inf. SCSI hard disk for Mac SE. 45MB, $899. 



Macworld 227 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Microlech Peripherals, Inc. 


Nova 20 


599.00 


20MB SCSI hard disk for Mac Plus/SE. 30MB, $729; 
50MB, $999. 


Mirror Technologies 


300 SE 


1095.00 


30MB int. hard disk w/software for Mac SE. Shock- 
mounted; ext. SCSI address switch. 45MB, $1395. 


Mirror Technologies 


53-11 


1599.00 


53MB int. hard disk for Mac II. 80MB, $2699. 


Mirror Technologies 


MagNet 20X 


1095.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk w/software. 30MB, $1295; 
40MB, $1795. 


Mirror Technologies 


MagNet 40/40 


2795.00 


40MB ext. hard disk/40MB tape backup. 85MB/40MB, 
$4595; 172MB/40MB, $6995; 340MB/40MB, $13,995. 


Mirror Technologies 


ProStation 1024 


7995.00 


Hard disk/tape backup for Mac II. Modularly expandable to 
1000MB/240MB. $7995 up. 


Mountain Computer, Inc. 


FileSale 


1095.00 


20MB ext. hard disk. 20MB-140MB avail. 


Northern Telecom, Inc. 


Memory Bank 261 


13,000.00 


261MB/75MB SCSI hard disk/tape backup. 


Northern Telecom, Inc. 


Memory Bank 485 


17,000.00 


485MB/75MB SCSI hard disk/tape backup. 


NuDATA 


DATA CELLIORxIOR 


2685.00 


10MB SCSI hard disk/IOMB removable media. 
Other models avail. 


NuDATA 


DATA CELL 40 x40T 


2695.00 


40MB SCSI hard disk/40MB tape backup for Mac 51 2K to 
Mac II. Software; ext. SCSI select; front switch. 


NuDATA 


GIGA CELL250T 


8250.00 


250MB ext. SCSI hard disk subsystem/40MB tape backup. 
Software; ext. SCSI select. 330MB/40MB, $9450; 
660MB/40MB, $17,100. 


Palo Alto Microsystems 


Whisper Drive 32 


889.00 


Ext. 32MB hard disk. Same footprint as Apple 800K drive. 
3 1/2" format; self-parking heads. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


PL 20 


995.00 


SCSI hard disk. 20MB-230MB, $995-$6995. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


PL20i 


895.00 


Int. hard disk for Mac SE. Includes ext. enclosure for 
2nd floppy drive. 20MB-40MB, $895-$1295. 


Personal Computer 
Peripherals Corp. 


MacBottom SCSI HD21 


1195.00 


21MB SCSI hard disk. HFS backup/archive/restore; Finder; 
copy utility; spooler for ImageWriter/LaserWriter. 

45MB, $1795. 


Personal Computer 
Peripherals Corp. 


MacBottom20 


1195.00 


20MB serial-interface hard disk for Mac 512K/Plus. 


Priam Systems Division 


MacDisk EM 40 


1895.00 


Ext. hard disk. 40MB-230MB, $1895-$3995. 


Relax Technology, Inc. 


H20/20T 


1995.00 


SCSI 20MB hard disk/20MB tape backup. Surge-protected. 
H40/60T, $2995; H80/60T, $3995. 


Relax Technology, Inc. 


H20P 


1195.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk w/surge protection. 30MB, $1395; 
40MB, $1595; 80MB, $1995; 150MB, $4395. 


Relax Technology, Inc. 


MacMate 20 


995.00 


20MB SCSI ext. hard disk. Vertical chassis. 40MB, $1495; 
80MB, $1895. 


Relax Technology, Inc. 


SI 20 


895.00 


20MB embedded SCSI drive for Mac SE/II. 30MB, $1095; 
40MB, $1395; 80MB, $1795; 150MB (Mac II only), $3995. 


Rely Technologies, Inc. 


Rely 65MB 


1995.00 


65MB ext. hard disk. 110MB, $2595; 240MB, $4495. 


Rodime Systems 


20 PLUS 


1195.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk. Daisy-chainable. 28 ms access. 
45MB, $1595. 



228 Novemher 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Rodime Systems 


20i PLUS 


1295.00 


20MB int. SCSI hard disks for Mac Plus. 45MB, $1695. 


Rodime Systems 


450 RX 


1595.00 


3 1/2" 45MB int. disk. 28 ms access. For Mac SE/II. 


Rodime Systems 


1000 RX 


2995.00 


5 1/4“ 100MB int. hard disk for Mac II. 28 ms access. 
140MB, $3495. 


SPECTRA Micro 
Development 


Mac SE Internal 20 
Hard Drive Expansion Kit 


B95.00 


20MB int. hard disk kit lor Mac SE. 40MB, $1295; 
80MB,$1695. 


SPECTRA Micro 
Development 


SPECTRA Drive 20 


662.50 


Portable 20MB SCSI hard disk. Power control, surge 
protection. 40MB, $1295. BOMB, $1695. 


SPECTRA Micro 
Development 


SPECTRA Professional 


995.00 


20MB ext. SCSI hard disk subsystem. Up to 500MB avail. 


Sunol Systems, Inc. 


Sun Streak 


1195.00 


30MB SCSI hard disk. Req. SCSI interface. 45MB, $1995; 
70MB, $2495; 110MB, $2795; 183MB, $5995; 245MB, $7495. 


SuperMac Technology 


DataFrame 30 


995.00 


30MB ext. SCSI hard disk. 


SuperMac Technology 


XP30 


1195.00 


30MB ext. SCSI hard disk. BOMB, $1695; 105MB, $2695; 
150MB, $3295. 


SuperMac Technology 


XP 60+40 


2595.00 


BOMB ext. SCSI hard disk/40MB tape backup. 


Supra Corp. 


SupraDrive 20 


799.00 


20MB ext. hard disk for Mac Plus. 30MB, $995; 
BOMB, $1995; 250MB, $3995. 


Univation, Inc. 


Slimline 20 


1495.00 


20MB ext. hard disk subsystem. Fits under Mac Plus. 
Req. SCSI interface. 30MB, $1795; 40MB, $2195. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


P20i 


499.00 


20MB int. hard disk for Mac SE. 30MB, $649; 45MB, $899. 
Prices reflect $100 credit for floppy-drive trade. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Photon 20 


569.00 


20MB SCSI hard disk. HFS/MFS compatible. Daisy- 
chainable; fan-cooled. BOMB, $789; 40MB, $949. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Photon 2001 


1399.00 


20MB SCSI hard disk/20MB tape backup. 


Western Computer. Inc. 


BIG MAC TWINPACK 


1299.00 


20 MB SCSI hard disk/20MB tape backup for Mac Plus. 


Removable Media 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple 3.5 Drive 


399.00 


BOOK ext. drive for Mac 512KE/Plus/SE. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple PC 5.25 Drive 


399.00 


Lets Mac SE/II or MS-DOS users read/write from/to each 
other's files. Req. Mac SE or Mac II PC Drive Card. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh BOOK External Drive 


399.00 


Ext. 3 1/2" floppy disk drive for Mac 51 2K up. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh Internal BOOK Disk Drive 


299.00 


3 1/2“ floppy int. disk drive for Mac II. 


Bering Industries, Inc. 


Totem 20MB Removable Bernoulli 


1495.00 


20MB SCSI Bernoulli drive. 5 1/4“ cartridges. Dual 
20MB, $2295. 


Central Point Software 


Central Point BOOK 


225.00 


Ext. drive for Mac 51 2K up. 


Century Data Systems 


PhD 


5495.00 


82MB removable/fixed-disk subsystem 
W/20.5MB removable cartridges. 


Cutting Edge, Inc. 


BOOK Drive 


165.00 


BOOK ext. floppy disk drive. 


IOMEGA Corp. 


Bernoulli Box A 110 H-APLS 


1295.00 


10MB online capacity; hard disk performance. 20MB, $1695. 


IOMEGA Corp. 


Bernoulli Box A 210 H-APLS 


1995.00 


Dual drive; 20MB; hard disk performance. 40MB, $2595. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Jasmine Technologies, Inc. 


MegaDrive 


999.00 


ExI. SCSI removable-media drive. 10MB hard-sectored 
cartridges. Reinitializes w/o data loss. 


LoDOWN 


CD ROM Development System 


11,585.00 


600MB CD ROM drive; 70 min. audio; 400MB WORM; 
155MB hard disk. For Mac Platinum Plus to Mac II. 


LoDOWN 


CD ROM Drive 


1595.00 


600MB CD ROM drive w/70 min. audio. 


LoDOWN 


WORM 400 


6150.00 


Write Once Read Many.. Laser lech. WORM 800, $8245. 


Microlech Peripherals, Inc. 


Micro MAC 800 


189.00 


BOOK ext. floppy disk drive. 


Mirror Technologies 


Mirror Magnum 800AE 


295.00 


BOOK ext. floppy disk drive. 


Mountain Compuler, Inc. 


Micro Bernoullis 


1895.00 


20MB single Bernoulli. Zero footprint. Dual drive. $2795. 


Mountain Computer, Inc. 


Micro Bernoullis Combo 


3395.00 


20MB hard disk/Bernoulli. 40MB/80MB avail. To $4495. 


NuDATA 


DATA CELL 10R 


1385.00 


10MB SCSI removable-media drive. Mac 512K to Mac II. 
20MB, $1095; 40MB, $1695; 80MB, $2195; 125MB, $3995; 
150MB, $4950. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


Inlinity Drive 1 


1095.00 


10MB ext. floppy disk system. Reads IBM PC 1.2MB/360K 
floppies. 75 ms access. Req. 51 2K. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


Infinity Drive 1 


1295.00 


10MB hard-shell media. 65 ms access. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


Infinity, Infinity II 


1095.00 


10MB system. Reads MS-DOS files from 360K/1.2MB disks. 
Req. 51 2K. Infinity II (hardshell media). $1295. 


PKI, Inc. 


Mac BOOK 


195.00 


800K ext. floppy disk drive. 


SuperMac Technology 


XP 60+B 


3495.00 


60MB ext. SCSI hard disk/20MB removable Bernoulli. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Phaser BOOK 


189.00 


HFS-compatible. Distinguishes bet. 400K/800K disks. 


Tape Backup Units 


Apple Compuler, Inc. 


Apple Tape Backup 40SC 


1499.00 


40MB Volume/file backup/restore. Req. SCSI interface/ 
Apple Hard Disk or Macintosh Internal Hard Disk. 


Blackhole Technology, Inc. 


MacTape 


8995.00 


9-track, quad-density tape drive w/software driver to 
backup/retrieve files. 


First Class Peripherals 


The Sider Model T6 


995.00 


60MB SCSI tape backup system. 


General Computer Corp. 


HyperTape 


1399.00 


40MB ext. SCSI tape backup lor Mac Plus to Mac It. 
Backs up/reslores disks or files. 


La Cie Ltd. 


Cirrus 40T 


899.00 


40MB tape backup. 


LoDOWN 


LoDOWN T20 


945.00 


22MB/27MB tape streamer. 50MB/60MB tape 
streamer, $1295. 


MDIdeas 


TDBK-20+ 


1095.00 


20MB SCSI tape backup. 45MB, $1295. 


Mirror Technologies 


Magnum Tape 20 


1195.00 


20MB tape backup w/software. 40MB, $1395. 


NuDATA 


DATA FILE 40 


1395.00 


40MB SCSI tape backup subsystem. Software; 
ext. SCSI select; front-mount switch. 


Peak Systems 


PLUS-20T 


995.00 


20MB SCSI tape backup. 60MB, $1295. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


MacBack+20 


995.00 


20MB volume, file, incremental backup/recovery tape backup 
system. Req. 512K. 60MB, $1495. 


Relax Technology, Inc. 


Tape20-P 


1295.00 


Ext. fan-cooled 20MB tape backup w/surge protection. 
Req. SCSI interface. 60MB, $1595. 



230 Novemh>er 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


SPECTRA Micro 
Development 


SPECTRA Tape Drive 


995.00 


20MB SCSI portable tape backup. Surge-protected. 


SuperMac Technology 


DataStream 


1295.00 


Tape backup/restore unit for any Mac hard disk. 


Tecmar, Inc. 


QT-Mac 40 


1495.00 


40MB portable SCSI tape backup. Auto, operation. 
Req. Mac 51 2K. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Transporter 20 


795.00 


20MB SCSI tape backup. Volume, file, or incremental. 


Whisper Microcomputer 
Products 


Whisper 20 


645.00 


Ext. SCSI hard disk w/backup, softvrare. 20MB, $645; 
30MB, $895; 40MB, $1295, 


Whisper Microcomputer 
Products 


Whisper Tape 


795.00 


Tape backup system. 




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Systems and 
Memory 



he Mac 128K and 512K handle basic 
applications in word pmcessing, hie 
management, and simple graphics. 

To get the mo.st out of today's power- 
ful software, how^ever, you need at 
least 512K of memory (preferably a 
megabyte), 128K ROM, and two 800K 
disk drives (or a 20MB SCSI hard 
disk). For many current applications, 
you need a Plus, an SE, or a Mac II. If 
you bought a Mac early on, you can 
upgrade to beneht fram the latest advances. 

Four types of upgrades-ROMs and disk drives, 
added memory, coprocessors and CPUs, and I/O 
cards-can give you almost as much power as a Mac II. 
For wx^rd processing and limited desktop publishing, 
you do not need a processor upgrade; an inexpensive 
memory upgrade may be sufficient. If you do a lot of 
numerical calculations or use CAD on your Mac, yx)u 
may want a numeric coprocessor and additional mem- 
ory. For engineering and scientihc simulations, com- 
plex graphics, or special effects, you could use all 
three: memory, processor, and coprocessor upgrades. 
If connectivity to other computers is your main focus, 
you can buy cards that allow' your Mac to emulate an 
IBM PC, exchange data, connect to UNIX machines, or 
connect and control laboratory instruments. 

ROMs and Drives 

In 1986, the Mac Plus introduced a new 128K ROM 
and an 800K internal disk drive-twdee as large as those 
in the 128K and 512K Macs. This combination upgrade 
from Apple is one of the cheapest and most essential. 

Without 128K ROM, you cannot use stable 
hierarchical hling systems (FIFS) or hie 
servers, nor can you connect to hard disks 
of more than 32MB. While the Mac 11 and 
SE have 256K ROM, no upgrade to that is 
currently available from 128K ROM. 

Memory 

With more memory, applications run 
faster, and more documents and desk ac- 
cessories can be open simultaneously. You 
can set up a RAM disk or disk cache (either 
Apple cache in the control panel or Turbocharger from 
Nevins) on your Mac with extra memory' to increa.se 
speed even further. You can add u]:> to 4MB directly 
into an SE or Plus, and SMB into a Mac 11. 

Both Apple and third-party vendors offer memory' 
upgrades; though Apple s prices are considerably high- 
er, their upgrades are dependable and ahvays compati- 
ble. Along w4th price and the vendor s reputation, 
these are important considerations. With more memo- 
ry, you need a fan to offset the additional heat inside 
the Mac case; look for upgrades that install a fan rather 
than mounting an external fan on top of the case. 

Some memory upgrades include SCSI ports for 
your 512K. Vendors like SuperMac go beyond this, 
olTering an extra 68000 processor to reduce the 





234 



November 1987 




workload of your main processor, in addition to a 
2MB memory upgrade, a SCSI port, and a fan, all of 
which make the Mac run 15 to 20 percent faster than 
a Mac Plus. 

Processors and Coprocessors 

The Mac II has a more powerful processor than 
the Plus and the SE. Its 68020 processor allows applica- 
tions to run faster, accesses more memory, and works 
well with other processors to deliver high perfor- 
mance. When coupled with the 68881 ‘'math chip,’’ it 
can perform numerical calculations up to 200 times 
faster than a Plus. W'hen the 68851 page memory man- 
agement unit (PMMU) is added to Mac II, you can run 
a UNIX operating system and address more than SMB 
of memory. Adding a graphics coprocessor or 80286 
coprocessor to the Mac II enables you to run IBM ap- 
plications in a window. 

You can also upgrade your processor and add 
coprocessors to the Plus or SE to create a workhorse 
like the Mac II. Inserting a card from AST in the SE 
also allows you to run IBM applications. Or you can 
buy an accelerator card with 68020, 68881, or 68851 
PMMU chips to change the SE into a “portable Mac II.” 

Unfortunately, standards in SE cards are still 
emerging. Since the SE has only one slot, decide care- 
fully which coprocessor or processor upgrade you 
want. Most accelerator upgrades allow you to connect 
to at least one large screen monitor. If you prefer a par- 
ticular monitor, you may have to choose an accelerator 
board compatible with it, or vice versa. 

You can also add the 68020/68881 comliination 
and an extra megabyte of memory to a Mac Plus for 
under $2000 from Levco, GCC, Peak, Network Spe- 
cialties, or Radius. Just make sure that your upgrade 
comes with a fan and that the power supply is adjusted 
to correct specifications. Again, weigh price/perfor- 
mance ratios, compatibility, warranty, and stability of 
the vendor before you buy. 

All power upgrades have disadvantages. Some ap- 
plications, desk accessories, and utilities will not run 
on a .Mac 11, Prodigy, or other system upgraded to high- 
er clock speed. Mac Plus upgrades strain its power 
supply; unless you can reduce the load, failure is inevi- 
table. Since Apple does not authorize additions to the 
Plus, all external upgrades must be removed before 
your Mac is serviced by an official dealer. 



I/O Connectivity 

Proper input/output connections and j^rotocols 
are imperative to connect a Mac to laboratory equip- 
ment for control and data acquisition needs, to DEC or 
IBM mainframes, or to other personal computers. Un- 
like the earlier Macs, the Plus has a SCSI port for high- 
speed hard disk connections; you can daisy-chain up 
to seven SCSI dexaces to a Mac Plus. To read and write 
IBM data rather than run IBM applications, options are 
available. If you are serious about having UNIX capa- 
bility, it’s best to buy a Mac II, due to the size of Apples 
UNIX operating system. But by the time you read this. 



UNIX may be available from third parties. 

For connectivity to laboratory instrumentation, 
National Instruments, MacADIOS from GW Instru- 
ments, and Reed College provide interface boxes. The 
National Instruments card for the Mac SE provides an 
industry-standard IEEE 488 port to wJiich laboratory 
instruments can be directly connected. To connect the 
Macintosh to other computer systems, such as DEC 
and IBM mainframes, several universities and indus- 
tries use Ethernet connections, which are available 
through Apple, Kinetics, Dove, and other third parties. 

Monitors 

Several manufacturers have introduced large 
screens that can be connected to the Plus, SE, or Mac 
II. Some of these have higher resolution than the Mac 
screen itself, and some are large enough to 
show two actual-size 8V2- by 11-inch pages. 

Large color screens are also available for 
use with the Mac II. While the higher resolu- 
tion is nice on a bigger screen, unless the 
screen font and cursor sizes are increased, 
reading is difficult. For serious desktop pub- 
lishing or CAD, big screens are verv helpful 
but cost $2000 to $3000. 

For desktop publishing, you may want 
full-page display; for spreadsheet and CAD applica- 
tions, a display that can show a page horizontally may 
be right. Make sure that your applications and hard- 
ware are compatible with the display you choose. 

Portables 

Some portable Macs are available with LCD or 
electroluminescent displays, but they weigh as much 
as the Mac Plus itself Currently Dynamac, Colby, and 
Intelitec offer portables, but high price and weight 
make each one a dubious choice. A year from now, we 
should see other lightweight portables. 

The Future 

True multitasking of applications is not yet avail- 
able on the Macintosh. To run applications that now 
take hours and days to calculate instead of seconds, an- 
other approach, called multiprocessing, can be used. 

The Mac iFs proce.ssor-independent Nubus archi- 
tecture gives it a lot of growth potential as a worksta- 
tion. Currently in the works are several graphics and 
sound accelerators, which will mal<e the Mac II faster 
and enable it to do tasks like graphics animation and 
architectural rendering, and to enter new areas like 
broadcast graphics. Network cards will enable you to 
emulate and connect to any computer you wish. 

Choosing an upgrade can be a confusing and ex- 
pensive process. Take your time in deciding, get good 
advice, and above all, know how much power you 
really need before you take the plunge. 

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to your hardware and 
software environment 



Macwodd 235 



Vendor 



Product 



Price 



Notes 



Buffers and Spoolers 





Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple LaserShare Printer Spooler 


299.00 


Off-loads LaserWriter printing queue to server. 




Cortland Computer 


BackPrint 


29.00 


Spooler. Req. 51 2K. 




DataSpace 


LaserServer 


2295.00 


Spooler. Holds 32 jobs. Expandable to 12MB. 




DataSpace 


Mac Buffer 


449.00 


256K buffer. Expandable to 1MB. 




Ergotron, Inc. 


MacBuffer LW 


1895.00 


Shares 1MB-4MB storage over AppleTalk. 




Intosphere 


LaserServe 


95.00 


Personal print-serving software. Speeds AppleTalk 
LaserWriter/lmageWriter printing. 5 users, $295. 


Y SYSTEMS ^ 


MacPeak Systems 


Plus Spooler 


795.00 


51 2K hardware laser spooler. Standalone, $995. 


[ AND 1 


Menlo Business 


Spool AT 


295.00 


Allows Tandem-file printing on LaserWriter. Host unit, $995. 


L MEMORY 


Systems, Inc. 






Req. 1 host/Mac unit per LAN. 




NuDATA 


Cell Spool 


1375.00 


51 2K hardware print spooler. 20MB, $2215. 




SuperMac Technology 


SuperLaserSpool 


149.95 


Background spooler for LaserWriter. Multiuser, $395. 




SuperMac Technology 


SuperSpool 


74.95 


Background spooler for ImageWriter. 




THINK Technologies, Inc. 


LaserSpeed 


495.00 


Multiuser LaserWriter-compatible spooler. 1 user, $99. 




Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Laser Sprint 


59.95 


Spooler lor LaserWriter. 




Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Print Sprint 


29.95 


Spooler for ImageWriter. 




Memory Upgrades 










Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple 1MB Memory Expansion Kit 


349.00 


1MB (4K-256K SIMMs) upgrade for Mac If. 




Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple 2MB Memory Expansion Kit 


999.00 


2MB (two 1MB SIMMs) upgrade lor Mac Plus to Mac II. 




Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh Plus Logic Board Kit 


799.00 


Expands Mac 128K to 1MB w/option for 4MB. SCSI port. 
Mac 512K kit, $599. 




AST Research 


AST-RM4 


899.00 


1MB expansion board for Mac II. 4MB, $1799. 




Beck-Tech 


MacMegabytes 


129.00 


1MB upgrade kit for Mac 128K/512K. RAM-disk software. 
Compatible w/HFS ROMs. User-installable. 




Dove Computer Corp. 


MacSnap 


149.00 


Upgrades Mac 128K to 512K. Productivity-enhancement 
upgrades avail, for all Macs. 8MB Mac II upgrade, $3998. 




Levco 


One Plus One 


1274.00 


2MB upgrade w/fan for Mac Plus. 4MB, $1798. 




MacDoctor Electronics 


Brainstorm 


330.00 


1MB upgrade. 1MB-4MB planned-expansion pathway. 
Plug-in memory modules avail. 




MacDoctor Electronics 


MacDoctor 512 


169.00 


Upgrades Mac 128K to 512K. Gold-plated 
open-frame socket. 




MacMemory, Inc. 


MaxPlus 2x4-S 


899.00 


Low-profile 2MB SIMM upgrade for Mac Plus to Mac II or 
TurboMax-equipped Macs. (Price subject to change.) 




MacMemory, Inc. 


MaxPlus Mega 


499.00 


2MB addition for Mac Plus. Low-power CMOS chips. 




MacPeak Systems 


Plus-RAM 


895.00 


2MB SIMMs w/surface mount for Mac Plus. 




MacProducts USA 


2MB Expansion Board 


175.00 


2MB upgrade. Low-power 1MB CMOS chips. 




MacProducts USA 


Magic 1MB SIMMs 


249.00 


1MB upgrade for Mac Plus to Mac II. 



236 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


MacProducts USA 


Magic Memory Upgrade 


99.00 


Upgrades Mac 128K to 512K. Also: 512K to 1MB, $159; 
128K to 1MB, $259. Doesn't affect Apple warranty. 


MASS MICRO 


MASS MICRO 


699.00 


2MB upgrade for Mac SE/II. 


MASS MICRO 


MASS PLUS 


299.00 


2MB upgrade for Mac Plus. 


National Semiconductor 
Corp. 


NS8/16-4B 


1975.00 


4MB NuBus upgrade for Mac II. Req. NS8/16-8E card, 
$3400. 8MB, $3595; 12MB, $5495; 16MB, $6995. 


OpenMac Enterprises 


Ram Series 


599.00 


2MB upgrade for Mac Plus/SE. 4MB upgrade for Mac Plus 
to Mac II, $999. Surface-mount models avail. 


OpenMac Enterprises 


RamPlus 


299.00 


2MB upgrade for Mac Plus. 4MB, $799. 


SuperMac Technology 


Enhance 


949.00 


Converts Mac 512K/512KE to 2MB Mac Plus. 


SuperMac Technology 


SuperRam 2 


499.00 


2MB upgrade for Mac Plus. 4MB, $899. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


DataRam 


259.00 


2MB upgrade for Mac Plus. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


MonsterRam 


595.00 


2.5MB upgrade for Mac Plus. For use w/int. hard disk. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


WarpRam 


179.00 


1MB upgrade lor Mac 512K/512KE. 


Monitors 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple Color High-Resolution 
RGB Monitor 


999.00 


13" Trinitron CRT. 640 x 480 pixel res.; analog input; 66.7-Hz 
refresh rate. Req. Mac SE or Mac II Video Card. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple High-Resolution 
Monochrome Monitor 


399.00 


Flat, 12" CRT. 640 x 480 pixel res. Analog input; antiglare 
screen. Req. Mac SE or Mac 11 Video Card. 


E-Machines, Inc. 


The Big Picture 


1995.00 


82 pixels per in.; 17" monochrome display. Allows 
simultaneous display of Mac screen. Mac Plus to Mac II. 


Logic Array 


Eyesaver 14 


395.00 


14" Mac monitor. Tilts and swivels. 


Micah Storage Systems 


Micah Vision II 


4690.00 


21" color monitor/video card. 


Micah Storage Systems 


Micah Vision Video System 


1995.00 


Video card/monitor. Allows multiple-monitor use. 


MicroGraphic Images 


MegaScreen 2001 


1995.00 


19 1/2" monitor. 1024 x 900 pixel res.; dual-screen 
capability. For Mac 512KE to Mac SE. $1995 up. 


Moniterm Corp. 


Viking 1 


1995.00 


19" screen for Mac SE. 1280 x 960 pixel res. 
3 desktop publishing modes. 


National Data Systems 


MacMonitors/Projectors 


1095.00 


17" high-res. monochrome w/antiglare, white phosphor, 
var. scan. For presentations. 23" model, $1295. 


NEC Intormation Systems 


Multisync 


899.00 


14” color monitor for Mac II. 800 x 560 pixel res.; 
7-way text switch. 


Network Specialties 


Hi-Top 


995.00 


15" monitor. 720 x 900 pixel res.; displays 
8 1/2" X 11" image. 


Network Specialties 


Longfellow 


1795.00 


720 X 900 pixel res. full-page display. 80-dpi interface. 


Network Specialties 


Stretch Projector! 


1799.00 


640 X 400 pixel res. 13" display screen for projectors. 


Network Specialties 


Stretch Screen! 


1995.00 


1024 X 1024 pixel res., 20“ screen; tilt/swivel base; 64-kHz 
scan rate. For desktop publishing. 


New Image Technology, Inc. 


V-Screen 


995.00 


15" portrait-style monitor for Mac SE. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Personal Computer 
Peripherals Corp. 


PCPC II 


4995.00 


19“ color monitor. 1024 x 768 pixel res.; 256 simultaneous 
colors. Includes display, board, cable. 


Radius, Inc. 


Radius Full Page Display 


1995.00 


Allovrs lull view of 8 1/2“ x 11" document. Req. 512KE. 


Sigma Designs 


LaserView Display System 


1795.00 


15” monochrome monitor for Mac SE/II. 1664 x 1200 or 
832 X 600 pixel (dual) res. 19", $2295. Req. 512K. 


SuperMac Technology 


SuperMac Color Monitor 


2995.00 


19” high-res. color monitor for use w/Spectrum. 


SuperMac Technology 


SuperMac Monochrome Monitor 


1495.00 


19“ high-res. b/w monitor for use w/Graphix or Superview. 


SuperMac Technology 


SuperMac Trinitron 


2495.00 


16” Trinitron high-res. color monitor for use w/Spectrum. 
19", $3695. 


Portable Macs 


Colby Systems Corp. 


Colby Lap-Mac 


5000.00 


Includes Mac Plus CPU; 1MB RAM; 800K drive. Weighs 
15.9 lbs. 10.5" diagonal gas plasma screen. 


Dynamac Computer 
Products, Inc. 


Dynamac 


4995.00 


Includes 1MB RAM; 800K drive; E-Machine interface; 
640 X 400 pixel res., flat electroluminescent screen. 


System Upgrades 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


AppleTalk PC Card 


399.00 


MS-DOS compatibility. LaserWriter access. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Mac II PC Drive Card 


129.00 


Allows Mac ll/MS-DOS compatibility. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Mac Plus Disk Drive Kit 


299.00 


Doubles disk capacity/increases speed. System software. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh II Video Card 


499.00 


Simultaneous display of up to 16 colors or levels of gray. 
Expansion kit: 256 colors or levels of gray, $149. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh SE-Bus Drive Card 


129.00 


Allows Mac SE/MS-DOS compatibility. 


AST Research 


AST-ICP 


949.00 


Intelligent com. processor for Mac II. Runs under UNIX. 


AST Research 


MAC286 


1499.00 


MS-DOS coprocessor for Mac II. 


AST Research 


MAC86 


599.00 


MS-DOS coprocessor board for Mac SE. Req. 1MB. 


Blue Whale Technologies 


Laser Accelerator Board 


2195.00 


Accelerator/memory-expansion board. Speeds printing 
200%-500%; adds 3MB RAM to LaserWriter. 


General Computer Corp. 


HyperCharger 020 


1499.00 


Processor-enhancement board tor Mac SE. 6-mHz, 32-bit 
68020 microprocessor. 68881 math coprocessor, $1699. 


Kinetics, Inc. 


EtherPort SE 


850.00 


Internal option card for Mac SE. Direct connection 
to Ethernet. 


Levco 


Levco Prodigy 4 


3499.00 


68020-based upgrade tor Mac128K to Mac Plus. 4MB; 
68881 coprocessor; fan/power supply. 


Levco 


Levco Prodigy Prime 


1899.00 


68020-based upgrade for Mac Plus. 2MB, $2399; 
4MB, $3199. 68881/68851 coprocessors optional. 


Levco 


Levco Prodigy SE 


1499.00 


68020-based upgrade tor Mac SE. 2MB, $1999; 4MB, $2799. 
68881/68851 coprocessors optional. 


Levco 


MonsterMac 


920.00 


2MB upgrade; SCSI port; fan. Increases speed 25%. 
Mac 128K/512K. 


Levco 


TransLink 


19.95 


Expandable accelerator. Uses parallel processing. 
Req. 512K. For Mac II, $24.95. 



238 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


MacMemory, Inc. 


TurboMax 


1499.00 


Multifunction accelerator board for Mac 512KE/Plus. 
68881 coprocessor, $399; E-Machine Adapter Kit, $149; 
TurboDrive40, $1999. 


MacPeak Systems 


Orion 


1995.00 


68020 accelerator board w/2MB RAM for Mac SE. 
68881 coprocessor, monitor card (Galaxy LS) optional. 


MacProducts USA 


Magic 68020 Upgrade 


495.00 


Upgrade for Mac 51 2K. W/floating-point coprocessor, $695. 


MacProducls USA 


Magic SCSI Port 


79.00 


Upgrade for Mac 512KE. 


MacProducts USA 


Parallel Printer Card 


99.00 


Parallel-printer card for Mac II. To $199. 


Mentauris Corporation 


Composite Video Adapter 


139.95 


Plug-in adapter for Mac 51 2K to Mac Plus. Connector for 
high-res. monitors/projectors. For Mac SE, $195.95. 


Micro Dynamics, Ltd. 


Micro Dynamics Mars 


39,000.00 


Multiuser archival/retrieval system for mgt. of large numbers 
of documents. Online access; permanent compact storage. 
Req. 2MB, 20MB hard disk, AppleTalk. 


Micro Systems Consultants 


MSC Color Display Card 


call 


1, 2, 3, or 4 color planes; 8 bits per palette; vertical refresh 
from 40 to 70 Hz; more. Ext. add-on hardware avail. 


MicroGraphic Images 


CineMac 


95.00 


Video interface/video outport for Mac 128K to Mac SE. 


MicroGraphic Images 


MMVideo Module 


99.95 


Clip-on video board. Allows different formats, including 
NTSC for std. videotape. 


Microtech Peripherals, Inc. 


Memory Expansion Kit 


599.00 


2MB (two 1MB SIMMs) for Mac Plus to Mac II. 
4MB, $1159. 


Microtech Peripherals, Inc. 


SCSI Port 


99.00 


SCSI port upgrade. 


Network Specialties 


Jump 020! 


999.00 


68020/68881 multispeed accelerator board. 2MB/4MB 
upgrade kits optional. Req. 51 2K. 


Novix, Inc. 


NB4200 


595.00 


High-speed PC application board. Maximizes 16-bit 8 MIPS 
NC4016 microprocessor. 


NOVY Systems, Inc. 


MAC20 


595.00 


68020 accelerator board. Supports Microsoft FORTRAN/ 
BASIC. Floating-point coprocessor optional. 


NOVY Systems, Inc. 


MAC20MX 


695.00 


68020 accelerator board. CPU speeds to 24 mHz. Floating- 
point coprocessor/high-speed 1MB or 4MB RAM optional. 


OpenMac Enterprises 


VA 


99.00 


Composite video card for Mac 128K to Mac Plus. 
MacSE card, $149.95. 


perfecTEK Corp. 


Mac+PC 


995.00 


Intel 8086 add-on board that allows Mac to run MS-DOS. 
Utilities; custom firmware. 


Peripheral Land, Inc. 


MacPort Plus 


189.00 


SCSI upgrade for Mac 512KE. 


Radius, Inc. 


Radius Accelerator 


995.00 


Quadruples speed of Mac Plus/SE. Compatible w/Radius Full 
Page Display. Math coprocessor, $395. 


Ryad 


MacEngine Series 


695.00 


Accelerator boards w/varied configurations of memory, 
high-speed CPUs, math coprocessors. To $1995. 


Ryad 


Video Board/Large Screen 


395.00 


Video-interface board. Provides access to 
12* to 20" monitors. To $1695. 


SPECTRA Micro 
Development 


Mac Expansion Chassis 


995.00 


Allows multiple expansion boards, high-density hard disks. 
For large-screen display or dedicated file server. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


SPECTRA Micro 
Development 


MacAccelerator 


995.00 


68020 workstation w/68881 coprocessor. Includes 
C-compiler/assembler. Clips to logic board. 


SuperMac Technology 


DataPort 


149.00 


SCSI port for Mac512KE. 


SuperMac Technology 


Graphix 


495.00 


High-res. monochrome controller board for Mac II. 


SuperMac Technology 


Spectrum 1000/8 


1495.00 


High-res., 8-bit, color graphics controller for Mac II. 


SuperMac Technology 


SuperView 


495.00 


High-res. b/w graphics controller for Mac SE. 


Western Automation, 
Laboratories, Inc. 


DASCH 


495.00 


1MB ext. RAM disk. Daisy-chainable to 16MB. 2MB, $595. 


Utilities 


1st Aid Software, Inc. 


1st Aid Kit 


99.95 


Repair-utiiity kit. Includes manual/recovery software. 


ALSoft, Inc. 


Disk Ensure 


49.95 


Hard disk backup program. Req. 51 2K. 


ALSoft, Inc. 


Disk Express 


39.95 


File-recovery/maintenance program. Req. 512K. 


ALSoft, Inc. 


Pro Link 


39.95 


Copies text files to/from Apple II. 3 1/2" Pro-DOS disks. 
Req. 51 2K, ext. drive. 


Bobbing Software 


Packer 


29.00 


Compression/encryption. 


Central Point Software 


Copy II 


39.95 


Floppy-to-floppy backup, protected/unprotected 
w/undelete. Files visible/invisible. MacTools. Req. 51 2K. 


Computer Shoppe 


MACPLOTS II 


295.00 


Driver. Plots PICT files. Plotter sizes A through E. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Crystal Canyon 
Computing, Inc. 


MacLibrarian-HFS 


79.95 


Backs up, catalogs, and restores disks, folders, files. 
400K disk holds/inventories 4900 tiles/backups. 


DataPak Software, Inc. 


Printer Interface II 


95.00 


Lets Mac print to printers other than ImageWriter. Req. 
serial printer. 


Design Software, Inc. 


DS Backup 


79.95 


Backs up/restores entire disks, selected directories, files, 
edited files. Prints report of files copied. Req. 51 2K. 


Diversified I/O, Inc. 


SoftBackup 


69.95 


Tape/floppy backup.* Network version, $139.95. 


Dove Computer Corp. 


RamSnap 


59.95 


Integrated speed enhancement, RAM disk, disk cache. 
Includes Switcher. 


Fifth Generation Systems 


Fastback Mac 


99.00 


Backs up files to floppy disks at 1MB per min. 


FWB Software, Inc. 


Hard Disk Partition 


54.95 


Partitions HFS volume into HFS/MFS subvolumes to 
password-protect. Req. 51 2K. 


FWB Software. Inc. 


Hard Disk Util 


89.95 


Allows protected software uploading to storage media. 
Req. 51 2K. 


Idealorm Inc. 


DiskQuick 


49.95 


Catalogs floppy/hard disks; exports to database or 
word processor. 


Ideaform Inc. 


MacLabeler 


49.95 


Creates custom labels lor 3 1/2“ disks. 


MacMemory. Inc. 


MaxRAM/MaxPrint 


49.95 


MaxRAM: full-featured auto-loading RAM-disk program. 
MaxPrint; DA spooler for ImageWriler. 


Macropac Internalional 


101 Macros for Excel 


69.95 


Prewrillen macro collection for Excel. Req. 512K. 


Mesa Graphics 


Plot-lt 


125.00 


Plots PICT documents or graphics copied to Clipboard. 
Req. 512K, supported plotter, cabling. 



240 November 1987 



Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Micro Analyst, Inc. 


Mac Zap 


60.00 


Disk/file recovery/utility programs. 70-pp. manual. 
Bulletin-board support. 


Microspot 


MacPIot 


199.00 


Plots from file menu. Use w/MacDraw, MacDraff. 
Req. 512K, interface cable. 


Paragon Courseware 


DiskOrder 


50.00 


File mgt.; cataloging; labeling. 


Paragon Courseware 


MacQuerty 


35.00 


Custom Dvorak keyboard reconfiguration. 


Personal Computer 
Peripherals Corp, 


HFSBackup 


49.95 


Archive/restore utility for Mac-compatible hard disks. 
Req. 512K. Multiuser version for AppleShare, $149. 


Searle Software International 


FileStar 


15.00 


Utility for manipulafing/searching files. 


SoftStyle, Inc. 


Plotstart 


125.00 


Color plotter driver. 


Software Power Co. 


PowerUp 


59.95 


Reorganizes data to minimize disk-drive head movement. 
Volume verify; free-space erase. 


Software Products 


PowerDisk 


59.95 


Caches disk data in memory. DA; control panel; "delay 
writes"; dynamic cache. 


Software Products 


Software Plot 


49.95 


Plots from ASCII files. Linear or log format in either axis. 
Overlay; zoom; online measurements. Custom labels/tokens. 
Prints/saves as MacPaint file. 


Software Supply 


PowerStation 


59.95 


Alfernative to Finder for opening applicafions/documents. 
Works w/MultiFinder. Req. 512K. 


Software Supply 


Suitcase 


59.95 


Allows access to uninstalled fonts/DAs. Req. 512K. 


SuperMac Technology 


DiskFit 


74.95 


Hard disk backup software. 


SuperMac Technology 


Network DiskFit 


395.00 


Hard disk backup software for LAN. 


SuperMac Technology 


TapeFit 


249.00 


Tape backup compatible w/DC-2000 or Apple's 40SC. 


SuperMac Technology 


Sentinel 


149.95 


Data security/password protection. 2 levels of file 
encryption. Req. 51 2K. 


Telos Corp. 


VAXDraw 


195.00 


Utility program. Converts MacDraw/PICT files to IGES files. 


THINK Technologies, Inc. 


HFS Navigator 


59.95 


Sysfem extension to Open/Save commands of sfd. appins. 


Warp Nine Engineering, Inc. 


Fullback 


39.95 


Hard disk backup utility. 


Williams & Macias 
Microcomputer Products 


myDiskLabeler 


44.95 


Customizes labels. Color, $54.95; laser w/color, $64.95. 



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mil recently, the Macintosh came 
with a mouse, a keyboard, and a 
monitor, all of which limited the 
need for, and means of, customiz- 
ing the system. Now SE and Mac II 
owners must buy a keybcxird sep- 
arately, and a monitor for the 11 is 
also an extra. The Apple Desktop 
introduced with the Mac II and the 
SE lets you daisy-chain up to 16 
devices to the II or SE, but choos- 
ing input and output devices requires some thought. 
Alternative input devices take the place of the Mac s 
mouse or keyboard, and outjDut devices transform the 
Mac's graphics and text into printed pages or monitor 
displays. In contrast to what was availal:)le during the 
early days of the Mac, many useful substitutes tor its 
stock components are now on the market. 

Making a Choice 

The usefulness of input and output devices de- 
pends on the work you do and the software you run. 
Many alternate devices are rather expensive, so decide 
carefully whether their advantages are worth the cost. 
If the product you get isn’t compatible with the con- 
nectors on your Mac, you’ll need an adapter. 

Mouse and Keyboard Replacements 

Since it can pick up dust and dirt from the ta- 
bletop, the Mac’s electromechanical mouse requires 
routine maintenance. An optical mouse, like the A+ 
Mouse from Mouse Systems, is not as susceptible to 
dirt, but it can be tricky to manipulate. If you aren't 

comfortable with the standard mouse’s op- 
eration, others, such as Kensington’s Turbo 
Mouse, move the pointer differently. 

Apple offers tw^o versions of its key- 
board for the Mac SE and the II: a standard 
model (similar to one on the Apple IIGS ) 
and an enhanced model with extra keys to 
support IBM PC emulation. DataDesk’s 
Mac-101 keyboard, modeled after Apple’s 
enhanced board, includes 12 function keys, 
separate cursor control keys, and a full nu- 
meric keypad. None of these boards w’orks 
with the Plus or 312K Enhanced, so about 
the only enhancement for an older Mac is 
to add Apple's numeric keypad, which fits alongside 
the regular keyboard. 

As mouse alternatives, joysticks and trackballs are 
ideal for playing games, and graphics tablets replace 
the mouse for artw'ork (see “Graphic.s”). 





Scanners 

Scanners bypass the mouse and kev'board to in- 
jxit text and/or graphics at rapid speeds. Though their 
features and prices vary widely, they all ojitically scan 
the surface of a piece of paper (up to about 8V2 by 14 
inches in size) and convert the image into data for pro- 
cessing by the Mac. 



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November 1987 



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A unique graphics scanner lor the Mac is Thun- 
derware’s ThunderScan, which uses the ImageWriier 
for the actual scanning by replacing the printer's rib- 
bon. Though TiuinderScan is inexpensive and can 
reproduce images as well as a desktop scanner, scan- 
ning a full 8- by 10-inch picture may take 20 minutes. 

Other scanners come in two basic types: flatbed 
and sheet-fed, both of which output the same high-res- 
olution graphics. Sheet-fed models are more common 
and generally less expensive, but must be used with 
individual, cut originals. 

Designed expressly for desktop publishing, .scan- 
ners have an upward re.solution of 300 dots per inch, 
the same as the LaserWriter. To accommodate full-page 
graphics, your Mac should be equipped with at least 
one megabyte of memory. Most pages take only 15 to 
30 seconds to scan, although you must rescan after 
adjusting controls to refine the image. 

Video Digitizers and Bar Code Readers 

Video digitizers take a snapshot of still or real-life 
images, then turn the picture into digital data for the 
Mac. You use a video recorder to take the picture, and 
a digitizer, like Koala s MaeVision or Magic from New 
Image, to convert the image into binary form. 

The typical bar code reader, such as the PC-380 
from TPS Electronics, connects to the .Mac between 
the computer and the keyboard. Waving the reader 
over the code picks up the data and enters it into the 
Mac, for use in applications like word processing and 
spreadsheets. You can also print your own bar codes 
using the ImageWriter or LaserWriter. Others, like the 
VidexTime Wand and the Cauzin Soft.strip Reader, 
handle bar code data in unique ways. 

Dot Matrix and Daisy Wheel Printing 

The ImageWriter is the only printer you can u.se to 
print graphics and text created b\' all Mac software, but 
a few’ dot matrix models, such as the NEC Pinwriter, 
Okidata Microline 192/193, and Toshiba P-1340, can 
print text as well as graphics from .selected applica- 
tions. NEC's color printers can be u.sed (with NEC sofi- 
w’are) to make color printouts w ith the .Mac. Both 
Apple s BusinessWriter and the Ibshiba P-1340 have a 
24-pin printhead, in contrast to the ImageWriter's 9 
pins, and produce high-ciuality text in one pa.ss. 

You can use daisy wheel printers wath the Mac as 
long as they have the proper serial interface. A daisy 
w'heel printer driver (included with .some applications 
such Microsoft Word 3.0) adjusts the Mac’s special 
text format for proper printing. Ofcour.se, daisy 
w’heels can offer neither graphics capability nor 
variable type .styles. 

Laser Printing 

The Apple La.serWriter is the premier laser printer 
for the Macintosh, bui you can u.se ju.st about any other 
model. La.ser printers can be loo.sely .separated into 
two groups: tho.se, like the La.serWriter, that u.se Post- 
Script, and tho.se that don’t. Without Po.stScript, many 



of the unique laser printer effects from programs like 
MacDrciw, PageMaker, and XX^orcl cannot be repro- 
duced. A Po.stScript-compatible printer like the Texas 
In.struments Omni 2115 is also able to output fancy text 
and graphics. 

Non-Po.siScript laser printers, such as the I Iew4ett- 
Packard LaserJets, are used primarily as substitute dai- 
sy wheels. Their print quality is high, and they output 
much faster than conventional daisy wJieels. 

Plotters 

Charts, graphs, and technical drawings can be re- 
produced on the Mac w’ith a color plotter, w'hich con- 
nects like a printer and uses a 
driver program run separately 
or acce.ssed through a desk ac- 
cessory. Plotters that operate 
well with the Macintosh include 
the Hewlett-Packard HP 7470 
and 7475, the Toshiba P-351, and 
the .Apple Plotter 410. All liave 
multiple pens for full-color 
plots. While almost any plotter 
can connect to the xMac, a sepa- 
rate driver, such as MacPlot, 

MacPlofsII, Plotstart, or Plotdt, is rec|uired. Some 
softw'are packages, including Cricket Graph and PZ- 
Draft, have built-in plotter interfaces. 

Film Recorders and Monitors 

Film recorders, like those from Presentation Tech- 
nologies, Matrix, and Dunn In.struments, capture the 
image of the Mac’s screen on 35mm film, w'hich is 
transferred to color .slide film for pre.sentations. Expan- 
sion monitors relieve the eyestrain of staring at the 
Mac’s 9-inch monochrome .screen all day. .Many add-on 
monitors let you display an entire 8V2- by 11-inch page 
at once, a feature that is useful for desktop puhlisliing. 
See “Systems and xMemory" for more information. 

Coming Attractions 

.Many of the Mac s existing input/output products, 
especially image .scanners, are being refined. Expan- 
sion monitors and graphics boards will give rise to 
high-resolution light pens and touch screens, two tech- 
nologies familiar in the IBM PC w'oiid. Largely in re- 
sponse to the de.sktop publishing boom, programmers 
and manufacturers have started to tailor their w’ares to 
specific applications. Marked improvements in .soft- 
ware and hardware design should come .soon. Make 
sure you get the latest version of any product wiien you 
buy an alternate device (call the manufacturer before 
purcha.sing). 

While today’s crop of alternate input/output de- 
vices for the Macintosh may .seem diverse, it's only a 
sample of w’hat is likely to come in the next year or 
two. The new open architecture of the Mac SE and 
the xMac 11, and their extensive color capabilities, wall 
greatly increa.se the buyer's options. I’he Mac has 
grown up quickh’ 

-Gordon McComb 



Keyboards, mice, plotters, 
and other devices that let 
you put in the raw materials 
of information and print out 
finished documents 



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Vendor 



Product 



Price 



Notes 



Bar Code Readers 


DATALOGIC OPTIC 
ELECTRONICS. INC. 


DATAPEN 


475.00 


Allows use of bar code reader w/o unplugging keyboard. 


TPS Electronics 


PC-380 Bar Code Reader 


795.00 


Bar code reader. Connects bet. keyboard/computer. 
PC-385 for Mac SE/II. 


TPS Electronics 


PC-580/PC-585 Magnetic 
Stripe Encoder/Verifier 


695.00 


Magnetic stripe reader. Connects bet. keyboard/computer. 
PC-585 for Mac SE/II. 


TPS Electronics 


PC-3800 Bar Code/Magnetic 
Stripe Reader 


995.00 


Combination bar code/magnetic stripe reader. 
PC-3850 for Mac SE/II. 


TPS Electronics 


PC-5800 Magnetic Stripe 
EncoderA/eritier 


795.00 


Encodes magnetic stripes. 


Videx, Inc. 


Bar Code Labeler 


89.00 


Bar-code generating program. Prints code 3 Of 9. Req. 512K, 
ImageWriter- or LaserWriter-type printer. 


Videx, Inc. 


Time Wand 


836.00 


Hardware/software. Portable bar code reader. Includes 
database. 


Cameras 


Dunn Instruments 


Dunn Color Macintosh System 


6000.00 


Film recorder interlaces to Mac. Professional/instant color 
transparencies, prints. 35mm. to 8” x 10‘. Req. 512K, 
ext. drive. $6000 up. 


Matrix Instruments inc. 


SlideWriter 


11,795.00 


Film recorder for professional 35mm slide production. 
Includes SCSI interface, built-in camera, 
utility software, cables. 


Digitizers 


Anatex, Inc. 


Personal Writer 


795.00 


Handwriting recognition. Req. 1MB, hard disk. $795 up. 


GTCO Corp. 


Macintizer 


399.00 


Integrated digitizer. Enhances graphic capabilities. 


Impulse 


Impulse Audio Digitizer 


199.95 


Analog to digital sampling. 8-bit resolution sampling from 
22 kHz to 5 kHz. Places sound in software. 


Koala Technologies 


MacVision 


349.95 


Converts camera/VCR images to digital data. Onscreen 
image can be manipulated with graphics/paint programs. 
Req. video camera or VCR. 


Kurta Corp. 


Graphics Tablet 


295.00 


Input systems from 6“ x 9“ to 42" x 60". Macro capability. 
Corded or cordless pins, cursors. Req. 512K. $295 up. 


Micron Technology, Inc. 


MicronEye 


295.00 


Digital-imaging system. Camera/soltware for capturing/ 
displaying images. 


New Image Technology, Inc. 


Magic 


399.00 


Video-input digitizer for Mac 128K to Mac SE. B/w camera, 
$150.00. LaserWriter 300-dpi software, $49.95. 


Peripheral Systems, Inc. 


Summagraphic 


445.00 


Graphics digitizer. 6“ x 9". 12" x 12" avail., $599. 


Pixielogic, Inc. 


MacViz 


595.00 


Real-time video digitizer for inputting images from NTSC- 
std. signal. MacPaint-like file. Output quality: 1 bit. 


Pixielogic, Inc. 


ProViz 


1595.00 


Real-time video digitizer for inputting images from NTSC- 
std. signal. Professional-output quality: 4 bit. EPSF. 

Req. 51 2K, SCSI interface. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Soltweaver 


PenMac 


345.00 


6“ X 9" nonmagnetizing pen/tablet digitizer. Auto- 
translation; rotation: reduction: enlargements: more. 
Sizes to 42" x 60‘; prices to $6695. 


ThunderWare, Inc. 


ThunderScan 


249.00 


Digitizer. Scans w/lmageWriter. Req. 51 2K. 


Keyboards 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple Expanded Keyboard 


229.00 


Alternate Mac SE/II keyboard. 15 function keys: numeric 
keypad; cursor keys. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Apple Keyboard 


129.00 


Std. Mac SE/II keyboard. Numeric keypad; cursor keys. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


Macintosh Plus Keyboard 


129.00 


78 keys w/2-key rollover software. Numeric keypad; 
cursor keys. 


Cambridge Automation 


Numeric Keypad 


59.00 


Numeric keypad. Installs to Mac keyboard. 


Cambridge Automation 


Numeric Turbo 


169.00 


Combines Trackball w/Numeric Keypad. Gives 
Mac 128K/512K keyboards the capabilities of a 
Mac Plus keyboard. 


datadesk International, Inc. 


MAC-101/101ADB 


169.95 


Mac-compatible keyboards w/15 function keys across top. 
Macro software. 


Tangent Technologies, Ltd. 


PC MacKey 


120.00 


AT-style keyboard for Mac 128K to Mac Plus. 


Mice and Alternatives 


Honeywell/Disk Instruments 


quadLYNX trackball 


129.00 


Replacement for std. Apple mouse. 


Kensington Microware 


Turbo Mouse/Turbo Mouse ADB 


129.95 


Alternative mouse w/ball on top. 


Kratt Systems Co. 


QuickStick 


59.95 


Replacement mouse. Switch selects bet. mouse/joystick. 
3 buttons; adjustable trims. Self-center or free-float. 


MicroTouch Systems, Inc. 


Mac & Touch Screen 


795.00 


Mouse-compatible driver software. Touch-screen control; 
simulates mouse actions. 


Mouse Systems 
Technologies 


A+Mouse/ADB A+Mouse 


119.00 


Optics/electronics w/reflective pad. 200 counts per in.; 
pixel-point accuracy. A+Mouse for Mac 128K to Mac Plus; 
ADB A+Mouse for Mac SE/II. 


Personics 


HeadMaster 


995.00 


Allows physically disabled to operate Mac equipment using 
only head movement. Not ADB-compatible. Req. 51 2K. 


Plotters 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP7475A 


1895.00 


6-pen plotter. Produces reports/presentation graphics for 
PC-CAD. Business/technical appins. 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP7550A 


3900.00 


8-pen plotter. Auto, sheet feeding; unattended plotting. 
Single or shared environment. 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP ColorPro 


1295.00 


810 plotter. Creates text, charts, graphics for 
presentations/reports. 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP DraftPro 


5400.00 


8-pen drafting plotter for personal CAD systems. 


Versatec 


Versacolor 


8995.00 


Color thermal plotting. Price varies w/configuration. 


Printers 


Apollo Computer 


Domain/Laser-26 


25,000.00 


300 dpi; 26 pp. per min.; 13 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. Parallel printer, $27,000. 



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Vendor 



Product 



Price 



Notes 



Apple Computer Corp. 


ImageWriter LQ 


1399.00 


216 dpi; 27-pln printhead; 250 cps draft, 90 cps NLQ; 
15“carriage; 4 built-in fonts. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


ImageWrIter II 


595.00 


Graphics in b/w, color. Up to 2.5 pp. per min. 


Apple Computer, Inc. 


LaserWriter/LaserWriter Plus 


4999.00 


Near-typeset quality. Built-in font selection; PostScript- 
compatible. LaserWriter Plus, $5799. 


AST Research 


TurboLaser/PS 


3995.00 


300 dpi; 8 pp. per min.; 35 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 


Compugraphic Corp. 


CG400-PS 


29995.00 


406 dpi; 18 pp. per min.; 73 built-in fonts; 20MB hard disk. 
PostScript-compatible. 


Computer Friends 


Panchroma A 


4500.00 


8 1/2“ X ir color thermal printer. 200 dpi; paper or 
transparencies. 14“ x 17". $9000. 


Dataproducts Corp. 


LZR2665 


17900.00 


300 dpi; 26 pp. per min.; 13 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 


Diconix, Inc. 


Dijlt 1/PS 


17995.00 


300 dpi; 20 pp. per min.; 17 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 


Digital Equipment Corp. 


PrinIServer 40 


57900.00 


300 dpi; 40 pp. per min.; 29 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 


Digital Equipment Corp. 


ScriptPrlnler 


6295.00 


300 dpi; 8 pp. per min.; 29 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 


General Computer Corp. 


Personal LaserPrinter 


2599.00 


300 dpi; 22 built-in fonts; Req. SCSI connecter/cables. 


Hewlett-Packard 


PaintJet 


1395.00 


Color graphics/NLQ printer. 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP LaserJet Series II 


2495.00 


8 pp. per min. 300-dpi graphics; resident soft fonts; 
font cartridges. To $4490. 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP PaintJet 


1395.00 


Color graphics printer w/NLQ text. 


Linotype Co. 


Linotronic 100 


31,950.00 


PostScript-compatible laser typesetter. Res. to 1270 scan 
lines. Outputs to paper, film, and onyx plates. 


Linotype Co. 


Linotronic 300 


59,950.00 


PostScript-compatible laser typesetter. Res. to 2540 scan 
lines. Outputs to paper, photopaper, film, and onyx plates. 


NEC Information Systems 


NEC Pinwriters 


490.00 


Line includes P2200, P6, P7, P5XL, P9XL. Dot matrix, 24- 
wire, full-function printers. To $1699. 


NEC Information Systems 


NEC Silentwriter 


2295.00 


Line includes 850, 860+, 890. Page printers from text-only 
output to PostScript output using LED array. To $4795. 


NEC Information Systems 


NEC Spinwriter 


545.00 


Line includes 350, 360, 3500, 8800. Fully formed LQ printers. 
To $1395. 


Okidata 


Microline 192+ 


499.00 


Dot matrix printer. 200 cps; 40 cps NLQ. Menu-select mode. 
Wide-carriage ML193+, $799. 


QMS Inc. 


QMS PS 800+ 


5494.00 


300 dpi; 8 pp. per min.; 35 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 1MB ROM, 2MB RAM. 


QMS Inc. 


QMS PS 800 II 


6495.00 


300 dpi; 8 pp. per min.; 35 built-in fonts. PostScript- 
compatible. 1MB ROM, 3MB RAM. 


Qume Corp. 


ScripTEN 


4795.00 


2MB laser printer. Collated output; 10 pp. per min.; 300 dpi. 
Serial/parallel ports. 4MB model, $5295. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


Seiko Instruments USA, Inc. 


CH5301 


6995.00 


8 1/2” X 11" color thermal printer. Paper or transparencies; 
4912 colors; 152 dpi. Req. video-signal adapter. 


Seiko Instruments USA, Inc. 


CH5312 


12,495.00 


8 1/2” X 1 r or 1 r X 1 7" color thermal printer. Paper or 
transparencies; 4912 colors; 203 dpi. Req. video-signal 
adapter. 


Texas Instruments 


OmniLaser 2108 


5995.00 


Workstation laser page printer using PostScript. 


Texas Instruments 


OmniLaser 2115 


7995.00 


Workstation laser page printer. Combines PostScript use 
w/shared resource capability. 


The Laser Connection 


PS Jet Printer 


4995.00 


Fully compatible PostScript laser printer. Req. 512K. 


The Laser Connection 


PS Jet Printer Plus 


5495.00 


Fully compatible PostScript laser printer w/35 fonts. 
Req. 51 2K. 


The Laser Connection 


PS Jet Printer Upgrade 


2995.00 


Upgrades Canon CX-based printer to full PostScript 
compatibility. Req. 51 2K. 


The Laser Connection 


PS Jet Printer Upgrade Plus 


3495.00 


Upgrades Canon CX-based printer to full PostScript 
compatibility. 35 fonts. Req. 512K. 


Toshiba America, Inc. 


P351 


1399.00 


300/1 00-cps, 24" X 42" dot matrix printer. 


TPS Electronics 


Barcode Printing Software 


200.00 


Prints Code 39 on ImageWriter/LaserWriter. Req. 51 2K 


Varityper 


VT-600 


18,500.00 


600 dpi; 10 pp. per min.; 13 built-in fonts; 20MB hard disk. 
PostScript-compatible. 


Scanners 


Abaton Technology Corp. 


SCAN 300 


2495.00 


Digitizes drawings, graphics, photos at 300 dpi. 32 levels of 
gray. Changes continuous tones to halftones. Documents to 
8 1/2" X 14". 


Abaton Technology Corp. 


SCAN 300/FB 


2295.00 


Flatbed scanner. Digitizes drawings, graphics, photos at 
300 dpi. Changes continuous tones to halftones. 

C-Scan graphic-interface software avail. 


Abaton Technology Corp. 


SCAN 300/SF 


1895.00 


Roller-fed optical scanner. Digitizes artwork/photos at 
300 dpi. Changes continuous tones to halftones. 

C-Scan software avail. 


AST Research 


TurboScan 


1895.00 


300-dpi graphic-imaging scanner w/SuperScan 
graphic editor. Req. 51 2K. 


Datacopy 


JetReader 


1300.00 


Sheet-fed scanner. Req. Macimage Kit, $695. 


Datacopy 


730 Flat Bed Scanner 


1800.00 


Scans bound documents. Precise positioning of originals 
for accuracy. Scans from 1“ x 1" to 8 1/2* x 1 1". 

Req. Macimage Kit, $695. 


DEST Corp. 


PC Scan 


2685.00 


Direct graphics input. Req. Publish Pac for the Mac, 
Macintosh Interface. 


DEST Corp. 


PC Scan Plus 


3185.00 


Direcf photo or graphics input. 32 levels of halftones. 
Req. Publish Pac for fhe Mac, Macintosh Interface. 


Hewlett-Packard 


HP ScanJet 


1495.00 


Flatbed design. Auto, document feeder. Req. 51 2K, 
HP SCSI Interface, $595. 


LoDOWN 


Image Scanner 


1785.00 


300-dpi scanner w/controller board/cables. 
Req. OCR software, $300. 



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Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Notes 


LoDOWN 


Image Scanner Flatbed 


1795.00 


300-dpi flatbed scanner w/controller board/cables. 
Req. OCR software, $300. 


Microtek Labs,, Inc. 


MS-300A 


2495.00 


Intelligent, 300-dpi image scanner for photos or line 
drawings. Includes 300-dpi paint program. Req. 51 2K. 


Microtek Labs, Inc. 


MS-300C 


1695.00 


Intelligent, 300-dpi image scanner for photos or drawings. 
Includes 300-dpi paint program, Req. 51 2K. 

OCR software optional, $595. 


Microtek Labs, Inc. 


MSF-300C 


1895.00 


Intelligent, 300-dpi, flatbed image scanner for photos or line 
drawings. Includes 300-dpi paint program. Req. 512K. 


Microtek Labs, Inc. 


MacRead 


600.00 


Reads up to 100 typefaces, 6 lo 14 pt. Reads Laser, 
dot matrix, typewritten copy. Req. 51 2K. 


New Image Technology, Inc. 


MacScan 


1547.00 


High-res. page scanner for Mac 11. 


Spectrum Digital 
Systems. Inc. 


LS-300 Scanner 


1550.00 


Scans 8 1/2“ x 11“ sheet in less than 15 seconds. 300-dpi. 
For line arf/halftone images. Req. 1MB. 


Spectrum Digital 
Systems, Inc. 


TrueForm System 


1995.00 


Scanner/sottware system for filling out forms. Transmits 
form image to screen. Prints form w/data or data alone. 
Req. 512K. 


The Laser Connection 


IS 300 


895.00 


Add to PC laser printer. 300 dpi. 


The Laser Connection 


IS 300 Scanner 


895.00 


Scans text/graphics; 300 dpi. Interface, $695. 



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American Intelliware Corp., 7^0. Bo.x69S0, Torrance, CA 90504, 213/533-4040, 800 222 -SOET 
AnaMairix, Inc., 7279 W. Gentile St., Layton, UT 84041, 801/546-1616 

Anatex, Inc., 1801 Ave. of Stars i/507, Los Angeles, CA 90067, 800/322-4744, 213/556-1628 in California 

Anchor Automation, Inc., 20675 Bahama St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, 818/998-6100 

Ann Arbor Sofiworks, Inc., 2595 Teller Rd. i/106, Newbury Park, CA 91320, 805/375-1467 

Apollo Computer, 550 Billerica Rd., Chelmsford, MA 01824, 617/256-6600 

Apple Computer, \nc., 20525 Mariani Ai-e., Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/996-1010 

Ashion-Tate Corp., 20707 Hamilton Ave., Torrance, CA 90502-1319, 213/329-8000, 800/437-4329 

SS\lAesewcQ\\,2121 Alton Ave., Irvine, CA 92714, 714/553-0340 

Automatix, Inc., 7000 Technology Park Dr., Billerica, MA 01821, 617/667-7900 

Avatar Technologies, Inc., 99 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748, 617/435-6872 




B. Knick Drafting, 575 Marlin PL, Melbourne Beach, EL 32951, 305/727-8071 
Baker Graphics, P.O. Bo.x G826, New Bedford, MA 02742, 617/996-6732 
Baudville, 7007 Medical Park Dr. SE, Grand Rapids, Ml 49506, 616/957-3036 
Bcck-Tcch,/^Q Box 5027, Berkeley, CA 94705, 415/548-4055, 800/227-2400 
bedc tech, 8327 Clinton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44144, 216/631-4214. 800/772-4536 

Bering Industries, \nc., 280 Technology Circle, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-8779, 800/BERINGl, 800/533-DlSK in California 
Berkeley System Design, Inc., 1708 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709, 415/540-5536 
BioPac Systems, 42 Aero Camino i/215, Goleta, CA 93117, 805/968-8880 

Bishop Graphics CAD Systems Corp., 5388 Sterling Center Dr, Westlake Village, CA 9/55.9, 818/991-2600 

BIZCOMP Corporation, 552 Mercury Dr, Sunnyvale, C A 94086, 408/733-7800 

Blackhole Technok>gy, Inc., 225 East St., Wuichester, MA 01890, 617/721-7690, 800/227-1688 

Blue Whale Technologies, 6900 Mentone, Coral Gables, EL 33146, 305/665-4665, 800/628-2828 

Bly th Software, Inc., 2929 Campus Dr. i/425, San Mateo, CA 94403, 415/571-0222 

Bobbing Software, 67 Cowitry Oaks Dr, Buda, TX 78610, 512/295-5045 

Borland International Ltd., 4585 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-8400 

Boston Publishing Systems, Inc., 1260 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02215, 800/637-5010 

Brainpower, Inc.,2^009 Ventura Blvd. i/250, Calabasas, CA91302, 800/345-0519, 818/884-6911 in California 
Bravo Technologies, Inc., /^Q Bo.x 10078, Berkeley, CA 94709-0078, 415/841-8552. 800/345-2888 
Breakthrough Productions, 10659 Caminito Cascara, San Diego, CA 92108, 619/281-6174 
Bree Technologies, Inc., 667/9 Market Hill Rd., Vancouver BC Canada V52 4B5, 604/875-1622 
Bridgeport Machines, 500 7/>/r//e)» 5/., P.O. Bo.x 32, Bridgeport, CT 06606, 203/367-3651, 800/242-2404 
Brock Software Products, Inc.,/?6. Box 799, Crystal Lake, IL 60014, 815/459-4210 
Broderbund Software, 17 Paul Dr, San Rafael, CA 94903, 415/492-3200 

Button-down Software, 6768 Ballinger Ave., P.O. Bo.x 19493, San Diego, CA 92119, 619/463-7474 




Cambridge Automation, 20200 State Rd. , Cerritos, CA 90701, 800/345-8666, 800/826-9214 in California 
Cambridge Electronics, Inc., 255 Beacon St., Somerville, .V/.4 02143, 617/625-2525 

Capilano Computing Systems, Ltd., 7/20 Hamilton St. i/300, Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 2S2, 604/669-6343 

Casady W'are, Inc.,/^Q Box 223779, Carmel, CA93922, 408/646-4660, 800/331-4321, 800/851-1986 

CE Software, //07 7 3rd St., Des Moines, lA 50312-1051, 515/224-1995, 800/523-7638 

Central Point Software, 9700 5. Wr Capitol Hwy. i/100, Portland, OR 97219, 503/244-5782 

Centram Systems West, Inc., 2560 Ninth St. #220, Berkeley, CA 94710, 415/549-5900. 800/ 222-TOPS 

Century Data Systems, 7507 S. Sunset St., Longmont, CO 80501, 714/632-7500 

Challenger Software Corp., 18350 Kedzie Ave., Homewood, IL 60430, 312/957-3475, 800/858-9565 

Chang Laboratories, Inc., 5300 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95129-1088, 408/246-8020, 800/972-8800, 800/831-8080 in California 

CheckMark Software, Inc., P.O. Bo.x 860, Port Collins, CO 80522, 303/484-3541, 800/426-2466 e.xt. 3.58 

Circo Business Solutions, 1729-A Little Orchard St., San Jose, CA 95125, 408/998-1132, 800/458-7466 

Claris Corp., 20525 Mariani Ave., Mailstop 23SS, Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/996-1010 

Clear Lake Research, 5615 Morningside #127, Houston, TX 77005, 713/523-7842 

CMA Microcomputer, 55888 Yucca Txiil, Yucca Valley, CA 92284, 619/365-9718 

CMS Enhancements, Inc., 1372 Valencia Ave., lltstin, CA 92680, 714/259-9555 



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CompScT\Co, 800 Freedom in., Slidell, LA 70458, 504/649-0484, 800/272-5533 

CompuCRAFT, PO. Box 3155, Fngletvood, CO 80155, 303/791-2077 

Compu^rapliic 200 Vallardrale St., Wilmington, MA 01887, 617/658-5600 

Computer Aided Systems for Engineering, The Market Place, Manlius, NY 13104 

Computer Applications, Inc., 12813 Lindley Dr, Raleigh, NC 27614, 919/846-1411 

Computer Associates/BPl Systems, \nc„ 3001 Bee Cave Rd., Austin, TX 78746, 512/328-5400, 800/531-5236 

Computer Friends, Inc., 14250 N. W. Science Park Dr, Portland, OR 97229, 503/626-2291, 800/547-3303 

Computer Shoppe, /^Q Box 18344, Greensboro, NC 27419. 919/299-4843 

ComVest, Inc,, 3371 Selva Rd. #230, Laguna Miguel, CA92677, 714/661-1266, 800/826-7092 

Contact Systems, Inc,, 509 Riverview Dr., Marietta, GA 30067, 404/953-8242, 800/322-4588 

Cortland Computer, /^O. Box 9916, Berkeley, CA 94709, 415/845-1142 

Corvus Systems, Inc., 160 Great Oaks Blvd., San Jose, CA 95119-1347, 408/281-4100, 800/4-CORVUS 
Cricket Software, .-)’(!> Valley Stream Pkivy, Malvern, PA 19355, 215/251-9890 
Crystal Canyon Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 7161, Las Cruces, NM 88006, 505/552-6176 
Cutting Edge, Inc., 11556 Fowler Dr, North Glenti, CO 80233, 800/443-5199 




DA Systems, Inc., 1503 F. Campbell Are., Campbell, C A 95008, 408/559-7434 

Data Basics, Inc., P.O. Box 32, Sunset, SC 29685, 803/878-7484 

Data Description, Inc.,/^0. Box 4555, Ithaca, NY 14852, 607/257-1000 

Data Tailor, Inc., 1300 S. Vniversity Dr. #409, Fort TX 76107, 817/332-8944, 800/443-1022 
Datacopy, 1215 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043, 415/965-7900 

datadesk International, Inc., 7650 Haskell Avc., Van Nuys, CA91406, 818/780-167 3, 800/826-5398 
D.ATAI.OGIC OPTIC ELECTRONICS, mc., MacGregor Park, 301 Gregson Dr., Cary, NC 27511, 919/481-1400 
DataPak Software, Inc., 14011 Mnilura Blvd. #507, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, 818/905-6419 
Dataproducts Corp., 6200 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91365, 818/887-8000 
DataSpace, 185 Riviera Dr. #9, Markl.utm, ON Canada L3R 5J6, 416/474-0113, 800/387-0492 
DataViz, 16 WJnJield St., Norwalk, CT 06855, 203/866-4944 

Dayna Communications, 50 S. Main St., 5th FL, Salt Lake City, UT 84144, 801/531-0203 

Deneba Software, 7855 NW 12th St. #202, Miami, FL 33126, 305/594-6965, 800/6-CAN\AS 

Design Science, 6475-B F. Pacijic Coast Hwy. #392, Long Beach, CA 90803, 213/433-0685 

Design Software, Inc., 1275 W/ Roosevelt, wist Chicago, IL 60185, 312/231-4540 

Desktop Graphics, 400 Country Dr, Ste. H, Dover, DF 19901, 302/736-9098 

DEST Corp., 1201 Cadillac Ct., 'Milpitas, CA 95035, 408/946-7100, 800/538-7582 

Devonian International Software, /^O. Box 2351, Montclair, CA91763, 714/621-0973 

Diconlx, \nc„3l00 Research Blvd., P.O. Box 3100, Dayton, OH 45420, 513/259-3100 

Diehl Graphsoft, Inc., 8370 Court Ave. #202, Fllicott City, MD 21043. 301 1461-9488 

Digicalc liiforniaticiue, 425 DeMaisonneuve U^’ #030, Montreal, PQ Canada H2A 3G5, 514/845-2921 

Digital E(|uipment Corp., 146 Main St., Maynard, MA 01754, 617/897-5111 

Digital Etc., Inc., 1750 14th St., Santa Monica. CA 90404. 213/452-5636 

Digital Technology International, 500 W/ 1200 S, Orem, UT 84058, 801/226-2984 

Diversified I/O, Inc., 1008 Stewart Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, 408/730-2171 

DKL I'echnology, Inc., 11 Donex St., Pointe Claire, QIJ Canada H9R 47.2, 514/694-9773 

Douglas Electronics, 718 Marina Blvd., San Leandro, CA 94577, 415/483-8770 

Dove Computer Corp., 1200 N. 23rd St., Wilmington. NC 28405, 919/763-7918, 800/622-7627 

Dow Jones & Co., Inc., P.O. Box 300, Princeton. NJ 08543-0300, 609/452-1511, 800/257-5114 

Dreams of the Phoenix, Inc., P.O. Box 10273. Jacksonville, FL 32247, 904/396-6952 

Dubl-Click Software, Inc., 18201 Gresham St., Northridge, CA 91325. 818/349-2758 

Dunn Instruments, 7001 Loisdale Rd., Springfield, VA 22150, 703/922-4600 

Dynamac Computer Products, Inc., 1536 Cole Blvd. #252, Golden, CO 80401, 303/233-7626 

Dynamic Graphics, Inc., 6000 N. Forest Park Dr, Peoria, IL 61614, 309/688-8800, 800/255-8800 



E-Machines, Inc.. 7945 S.W''. Mohawk St., Tualatin, OR 97062, 503/692-6656 

Educomp Computer Services, 742 Genevieve, Ste. D, Solano Beach, CA 92075, 619/259-0255 

El duPont, Inc., 515 Fishing Creek Rd., New Cumberland, PA 17070, 717/938-7683, 800/233-1173 

Electronic Arts, 1820 Gateway Dr, San Mateo, CA 94404, 415/571-7171 

E-Machlnes, Inc., 7945 S.W. Mohawk St., Tualatin, OR 97062, 503/692-6656 

Enabling Technologies, 600 S. Dearborn #1304, Chicago, IL 60605, 312/427-0408 

Engineering Programming Concepts, /^O. Box 925, Camarillo, CA 93011, 805/484-5381, 800/367-3585 

EnterSet, J.->.wy://.s7ro;7/), Berkeley, CA 94704, 415/549-0539 

Enziin-lloshigumi 310 Still River Rd., PO. Box #131, Still River, MA 01467, 617/456-8255, 800/962-6686 

ErezAnzcl Software, 113 McCabe Cresce?it, Thornhill, ON Canada L4J 2S6, 416/738-4601 
Ergotron, Inc., 1621 F. 79th St., Minneapolis, MN 55420, 612/854-9116, 800/328-9839 




Farrallon Compuiin^, 21 50 Kittredge St., Berkeley, CA 94704, 415/849-2331 

Fifth Generation Systems, 2691 Richter Ave. #107, Irvine, CA 92714, 714/553-0111, 800/225-2775 

Fine Grove Ltd., P.O. Box 11863, Tel Aviv 6116, Israel 

First Class Peripherals, .^579 Hwy. 50 E, Carson City, NE 89701, 800/982-3232 
F.L.I. Firebird Licensees, Inc,, PO. Box 49, Ramsey, NJ 07446, 201/444-5700 
Folkstonc Design, Inc., P.O. Box 86982, N. Vancouver, BC Canada V7L 496, 604/986-8060 
Forethought, lnc„250 Sobrante W'ay, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, 408/737-7070, 800/622-9273 
Foundation Publishing, Inc., 10301 Yellow Circle Dr, .Minneapolis, MN 55343, 612/935-4230 



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FTL Systems. Inc., 234 Eglbitou Are. E i^205, Toronto, ON Camtda M4P 1K5, 416/487-2142 

FutureVest, 542 W. 112th St., New York, NY 10025, 212/222-1607 

FWB Software. ltiQ.,2040 MkSt. #2/5. San Francisco, CA 94109, 415/474-8055 



General Computer Corp., 215 First St., Cambridge, MA 02142, 617/492-5500, 800/634-9737, 800/854-9737 in Illinois 

GenMlcronics, 5900 Shore Bird. 1^401, St. Feter.shur^, FL 3.3707, 813/34.5-5020 

Gibbs & Associates, 9311 Eton Are., Cbatswortb, CA 91311, 818/700-8854, 800/654-9399 

Great Plains Software, Inc., 1701 S. W. 38th St., Far^o, ND 58103, 701/281-0550, 800/ 345 .3276 

Great Wave Software, 5353 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-1990 

Greene, Inc., 15 Via Chualar, Monterey, CA 9.3940, 408/375-0910 

GTCO Corp., 7125 Rirerwood Dr, Columbia, MD 21046, 301/381-6688 

GW Instruments, 26<^ Monsii>nor O’Brien llwy #5. Camhrid/>e, MA 02141, 617/625-4096 




llaba Systems, 6711 Valjean, Van Nuys, CA 91406, 818/994-1899 
Harvard Associates, 260 Beacon St., Sommer rille, MA 02143, 617/492-0660 

Harvard Medical School Decision Systems, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115, 617/732-6508 

Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc., 705 Westech Dr, Norcross, GA 30092, 404/449-8791, 800/241-6492 

ilcizer Software, 1941 Oak Park Bird. H30, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523, 415/943-7667 

Ucwlctt-lHii:karfl,3000Hanorer.St., Palo Alto, CA 94304, 415/857-1501 

High Performance Systems, 13 Dartmouth College Hwy, Lyme, NH 03768, 603/795-4857 

HMS Computer Company, 2401 Pilot Knob Rd. 1L108, Mendota Heights. MN 55120, 612/452-5928 

Hone>'welLDIsk Instruments, 102 E. Baker St., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, 714/979-5300, 800/824-3522 



1C Sensors, Inc., 1701 McCarthy Bird., Milpita.s, CA 95035, 408/432-1800 

IDAC, Inc., 4 Limbo l.n., P.O. Bax 397, Amhetst, NH 03031, 603/673-0765 

Ideaform lnc.,/^Q Bo.x 1540, Fairfield, I A 52556, 515/472-7256 

Image Club Graphics, 29/5 19th St. NE, Calgary, Al. Canada P2E 7A2, 403/250-1969 

Imagine Software, 19 Bolitias Rd., Fairfax, CA 949.30, 415/453-3944 

Impulse, 6870 Shingle Creek Pkwy Hi 10, Minneapolis, MN 554.30, 612/566-0221, 800/328-0184 

Industrial Computations, Inc., 40 Washington St., Wellesley, MA 02181, 617/235-5080 

Infosphere, 47.30 S.W. Macadam Are., Portland, OR 97201, 503/226-3515, 800/445-7085 

Innovative Data Design, Inc., 2280 Bates Are., Ste. A, Concord, CA 94520, 415/680-6818 

Innovative Software, 2120 Glendoii Ct., Bakersfield, CA 93309, 805/832-6698 

lnnovlslon,/?Q Box 1317, Los Altos, CA 94023, 415/964-2885 

Int’l Computer Consultants, /.5// Clegg St., Petaluma, CA 94952, 707/765-9200 

Interactive Network Technologies, 20/1/7/1' Circle, Wahan, MA 02168, 617/965-5239 

Invention Software Corp., P.O. Bo.x 3168, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, 313/996-8108 

Invincible Software, 9534 Burwick, San Antonio, TX 78230, 512/344-4228 

lOMFXiA Corp., 1821 W. 4000 S, Roy, UT 84067, 801/778-3000 

Island Computer Services, J50/ E. Yacht Dr, Long Beach, NC 28461, 919/278-9483, 800/826-7146 



Jasmine Technologies, Inc., 555 Dellaro Are., San Francisco, CA 94107, 415/621-4339 
JDL, \nc., 2801 Townsgate Rd. H104, Westlake Village, CA 91361, 805/495-3451 
JLC Software, Inc., 29505. Ceylon Way, Aurora, CO 80013, 303/690-5443 
Julian Systems, Inc., 140 Mason Circle, Ste. H, Concord, CA 94520, 415/686-4400 



Kandu Software Corp., 2305 A/1 Kentucky St., Arlington, VA 22205, 703/532-0213 
Kaz Business Systems, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, 212/757-9566 
Kensington Microware, 25/ Park Are. S, New York, NY 10010, 212/475-5200, 800/535-4242 
Kinetics, Inc., 2500 Camino Diablo Hi 10, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 415/947-0998 
Knowledge Engineering, GPO Box 2139, New York, NY 10116, 212/473-0095 
Koala Technologies, 269 iV//. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-0966 
Kraft Systems Co., ^50 Wf California Are., Vista, C A 92083, 619/724-7146 
Kurta Corp., ^6/0 5 35th St., Phoenix, AZ 85040, 602/276-5533, 800/44-KURTA 



LsiCleUA., 16285 S.W. 85th St. H306, Tigard, OR 97223, 503/684-0143 

Lake Avenue Software, 650 Sierra Madre Villa H204, Pasadena, CA 91107-2013, 818/351-5483 

Larry Rosen Co., 7008 Springdale Rd., Louisville, KY 40222, 502/228-4343 

The Laser Connection, 7852 Schillinger Park W, Mobile, AL 36608, 205/633-7223 

LaserWare, Inc., P.O. Box 668, San Rafael, CA 94915, 800/367-6898, 415/453-9500 in California 

Layered, 529 Main St., Boston, MA 02129, 617/242-7700, 800/262-6620 

Letraset USA, 40 Eisenlxiwer Dr, Paramus, NJ 07653, 201/845-6100, 800/722-0377 

Levco, 6/60 Lusk Bird. HC-203, San Diego, CA 92121, 619/457-2011 

Linkware Corp., 77 RumfordAve., Waltham, MA 02154, 617/894-9330, 800/356-1212 

Linotype Co., 200 Unicorn Park Dr, V^oburn, MA 01801, 617/935-2196, 800/348-2800 

Living Videotext, Inc., 117 Easy St., Mountain View, CA 94043, 415/964-6300, 800/443-4310, 800/822-3700 in California 

LM Software. P.O. Box 93, Belmont, CA 94002, 415/345-0388 

LoDOWN, 10 Victor. Square H600, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-7400 

Logic Array, 18017 Sky park Circle, Ste. M, Irrine, CA 92714, 714/320-9108, 800/225-6442, 800/843-0426 in California 



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I.OIUS Dcvdopmcnt Corp., 55 Cambridge PkwY., Cambridge, MA 02142, 617! 577 -8500 

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l.uty.ky-Halrd Associates, /^O. Box 8609, Calahasas, CA 91302, 818/347-7791 

MacDoctor Electronics, 1145 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043, 415/964-2131 

Macl.ord Systems, Inc., 5029 La Mart Dr, Ste. A, Riverside, CA 92507, 714/687-1919 

MacMedic Publications, Inc., 5805 Westbeiner, Houston, TX 77057, 713/977-2655 

MacMemory, Inc.,2^^T>l /V TirstSt., San Jose, CA 95131, 408/922-0140, 800/862-2636 

The MacNcal SchwendlerCorp., A?/5 Colorado Bird., Los Angeles, CA 90041, 213/258-91 1 1, 800/336-4858 

MaePeak Systems, 1201 Spyglass, Austin, TX 78746, 512/327-3211, 800/225-7509 

MacProducts USA, 9709 Brown Ln., Ste, 1:, Austin, TX 78754, 512/832-0335 800/A h\C-DlSK, 800/262-2839 in lexas 

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MacroMind, 1028 mdfrani, Chi<^ago, IL 60657, 312/871-0987 

Macropac International, 19855 Stevens Creek Bird. #/6«9, Cupertino, CA 95041, 408/996-8143 

Marvelin Corporation, .^^20 Ocean Park 1L3020, Sattia Monica, CA 90405, 213/450-6813, 800/554-2469, 800/36>8-3813 
MASS MICRO, J250 /O]\sv., Santa Clara, CA 95054, 408/988-1200, 800/253-8900 
Matrix Instruments Inc., / Raniland Rd., Orangebttrg, SY 10962, 914/365-0190 

MaxThink,2.500-octoMrc^. Piedmont, CA 94610, 415/428-0104, 800/227-1590, 800/642-2406 in California 

MDIdeas, 1163 biton Dr, Faster City CA 94404, 415/573-0580, 800/843-5722, 800/572-2746 in California 

Megahaus, 6215 Ferris Square, San Diego, CA 92121, 619/450-1230 

Menlo Business Systems, Inc.,.lj^ State St.. LosAltos, CA 94022, 415/948-7920 

Mentauris Corporation, 407 Main St., P.O. Box 567, Martindale, TX 78655, 512/357-2182 

Mesa Graphics, /^O Box 600, Los Alamos, :\M 87544, 505/672-1998 

Meta Software Corp., 150 Cambridge Park Dr, Cambridge, MA 02140, 617/576-6920, 800/227-4106 

Mctaresearch, Inc., 1211 S.W. Fifth H2860, Portland, OR 97204, 503/228-5806 

Micah Storage Systems, 56 Worral Dr, Newark, DE 19711, 914/968-7647 

Micro Analyst, Inc., /^O. Box 15003, Austin, TX 78761, 512/926-4527 

MICRO CAD/CAM, \nc.,3230 Overland Ave. #105, Los Angeles, CA 90034, 818/376-6860 

Micro Dynamics, Ltd., 8555 16th St. #802, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301/589-6300, 800/634-7638 

Micro Planning International, 5 5/. #840, San Francisco, CA 94104, 415/788-3324 

Micro Systems Consultants, /57V/ #209, Van Nuys, CA 9141 1 -.^548, 818/997-0408 

MicroTradlngSoftware, Ltd., 72.5 Hulda Hill Rd., Wilton, CT 06897, 203/762-8563 

Microcom, Inc., 1400A Providence Hivy, Norwood, MA 02062, 617/762-9310, <W0/«S\S’2-iS’22V 

Microfinancial Corp., 15404 E. Valley Blvd., Industry CA91746, 818/961-0237 

MicroGrapliic Images, 2095V Osborne St., Canoga Park, CA91304, 818/407-0571 

Microlytics,.-?00 Main S/., Fast Rochester, NY 14445, 716/248-9150, 800/828-6293 

Micron Technology, lnc.,2cV05 /:’. Columbia Rd., Boise, ID 83706, 208/386-3800 

microneering, 27/ /•. Culver Blvd., Ste. Q, Plava Del Rev, CA 90293, 800/423-0814, <SY;o/V2.5-5V9.V in California 

Microsoft Corp., 16011 N.E. 36tb Way, P.O. Box 97017, Redmond, \V^/\ 98073-9717, 206/882-8080 

MicroSolutlons, 132 W Lincoln Hwv. , DeKalb, IL 60115, 815/756-3411 

Microspot, 800 Freedom Ln., Slidell, LA 70458, 504/649-0484, 800/272-5533 

Microsystems Consulting, Inc., 708 S. Rosemont Rd. #204, Virginia Beach, VA 23452. 804/431-1758 

Microtcch Peripherals, Inc., 29 Busitiess Park Dr, Branford, CT 06405, 203/488-7744, 800/325-1895 

Microtek Labs, Inc., 16901 S. Western Ave., Gardena, CA 90247, 213/321-2 12 1 

MicroTouch Systems, Inc., 70 State St., Wobitrn, MA 01801, 617/935-0080 

.MICROTRADING SOFT\^ARE, LTD., 123 Hulda Hill Rd., Wilton, CT 06897, 203/762-7820 

Migent Software, Inc., 7765 Tahoe Blvd. #215, Incline Village, NV 89450-6062, 702/832-.U00 

Miles Computing, Inc., 7741 Alabama Ave. #2, Canoga Park, CA 91304, 818/341-141 1 

Mindscape, Inc.,.7VVV Dundee Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062, 312/480-7667, 800/221-9884 

.Mind work Software, 100 Pacific St. #555C, Monterey, CA 93940, 408/375-1531 > 800/367-43.^4 

Mirror Technologies, 2209 Phelps Rd., Hugo, MN 55038, 612/426-3276, 800/328-6795 e.xt. 428 

Moniterm Corp., 5740 Green Circle Dr, Mintwtonka, MN 55.543, 612/935-4151 

Monogram, .767 Van Ness Wdy Torrance, CA 90501-1494, 213/533-5120, 800/242-7827 

Mountain Computer, Inc., 360 El Pueblo Rd., Scotts Valley, CA 95056, 408/4.58-6650, 800/458-0300 

Mouse Systems Technologies, 2600 .SV/;/ Thomas E.xpwy., Santa Clara, CA 95051, 408.1988-021 1 

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Nantucket Corp., 12555 W. lefferson Blvd. #300, Los Angeles, CA 90066, 213/. 590-7925 

National Data Systems, 277.7 \Vc>//.s' Branch Pkwy #6100, Austin, FX 78728, 512/251-1592, 800/777-3000 

National Instruments Corp., 12109 Technology Blvd., Austin, TX 78727, 512/250-91 19, 800/531-4742 

National Semiconductor Corp., 2900 S‘c^/;//co;/^7//c/or 7^/:, P.O. Bo.x 58090, Mailstop 7315, Santa Clara, CA 95052*«S’090, 

408/721-8080, 800/5 58-8510, 7>’00.:7V5-V006 in California 
NCSS,7765 7:*. 400 N, Kaysville, I JT 84037, 801/546-0445 

NEC Information Systems, 755. Rd., Bo.xborougb, MA 01719, 617/264-8000, 617/635-4400 
Neoscribc International, P.O. Box 633-MD, East Haven, CT 06512, 203/467-9880 
NetSolutions,iSM7^'/r//;asY/ San Anselmo, CA 94960, 415/454-7660, 800/523-6549 
Network Specialties, 1485 Bayshore, San Franci.sco, CA 94124, 415/467-8411 

New Directions Software, 2975 19th St. NE #206, Calgary AL Canada P2E 7A2, 403/250-1969, 800/661-9410 

New Image Technology, Inc., 10.500 Greenbelt Rd., Seabrook, MD 20706, 301/464-3100 

Nolo Press, 950 Parker. St., Berkeley CA 94710, 415/549-1976, 800/992-NOLO, 800/445-NOLO in California 

Northern Telecom, Inc., 2.705 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054, 408/988-5550 

Novix, Inc., 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd. #280, Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/255-2750 

NOW Systems, Inc., 69 Ravenwood Ct., Ormond Beach, FL 32074, 904/427-2358 

NuDATA,.7206.Vc'O// Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054. 408/727-1049, 800/8-DATA Ni/ 



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Oceanside Software, P.O. Pox 2028, WUhiut Creek, CA 94595-2028, 4151947-1000 
Odesia Corp., 4084 Commercial Ave., Northbrook, IL 60062, 312/498-5615, 800/323-5423 
Office lvAk,345 Montgomery Ave., Bala Cynwycl, PA 19004, 215/664-7440, 800/345-0133 
Okidaia. 532 Pellowship Pd, Mount Laurel, nJ 08054, 609/235-2600 

Oldiival Software, Inc., 6900 MenPnte, Coral Cables, PL 33146, 305/665-4665, 800/628-2828 ext. 751 
OpenMac Enterprises, 140 Maso?i Circle, Ste. 1 1, Concord, CA 94520, 415/682-0440 
Options-80,/^Q Box 471, Concord, MA 01742, 617/369-1589 

Oran«e Micro, Inc., 1400 North Lakeview Are., Anaheim, CA 92807, 714/779-2772, 800/223-8029 
OrthcHlontic Processing;, PO. Box 612, Loma Linda, CA 92354, 619/425-2844 
Owl International, Inc., 14218 NE. 2 1st St., Bellevue, VV:'\ 98007, 206/747-3203 




Pacer Software, Inc., 7911 1 lerscherl Are. H402, La Jolla, CA 92037, 619/454-0565 

Palantir Software, Inc., 12777 Jones Pd. UlOO, Houston, 7X 77070, 713/955-8880. 800/368-3797, 800/831-3119 in Texas 

l*alo Alto Microsystems, .^69 Christopher Ct., Palo Alto, CA 94306, 415/424 8740 

Palomar Software, Inc.,/^Q Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083, 619/727-3922 

l^aragon Courseware, 4954 Sun Valley Pd., Del Mar, CA 92014, 619/481-1477 

PC Telesystems, P.O. Box 5127, Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 4A9, 604/255-9949 

Peachtree Software L.P., 4355 Shackleford Pd., Norcross, CA 30093, 404/564-5700, 800/247-3224 

Pecan Software Systems, 1410 39th St., Brooklyn, NY 11218, 718/851-3100, 800/63-PECAN 

perfecTEK Corp., 726 S. Itillview Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035, 408/263-7757 

Peripheral Computers & Supplies, Inc., 2-^57 Perkiomen Ave., Pedding, PA 19606, 215/779-0522 

IVripheral Land, \nc.,47800 Westinghouse Dr, Premont, CA 94538, 415/657-2211 

IVripheral Systems, Inc., 225 Past St., Winchester, MA 01890, 617/729-7715 

l*ersonaI BibIio);raphic Software, Inc., 412 Lotlgshorc Dr, Ann Arbor, Ml 48105, 313/996-1580 

Personal Computer Peripherals Corp., 6204 Benjamin Pd., Tampa, PL 33634, 813/884-3092, 800/M ACl JTl' 

Personal Training Systems, /'O. Box 54240, .San Jose, CA 95154, 408/559-8635 

Versonics, 2352 Main .St., Bldg. 2, Concord, MA 01742, 617/897-1575, 800/445-3311, 800/447-1196 in Massachusetts 

Phil lips Software, 1633 Commonwealth Ave., West .Newton, MA 02165, 617/332-1373 

Pixieiogic, \nQ„38 A\iontvale Ave., Stcnieham, MA 02180, 617/438-5520 

PKI, Inc.,25J9 W. 237th St., Ste. E, Torrance, CA90505, 213/539-2123, 800/821-3733 

Postcraft International, Inc., 9420 Peseda Blvd. 4L476, Northridge, CA 91324, 818/7 18- 1598 

Presentation Technologies, Inc., 743 N. Pastoria Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, 408/749-1959, 800/345-7050, 800/749-1959 in California 

Priam Systems Division, 29 W. Montague E.\pw\\, San Jose, CA 95134, 408/4.^4-9300 

Pro Plus Software, lnc.,2759 E. Brown Pd., Mesa, AZ 85203, 602/461-3296 

Probability Distribution, /^O. Box 27276, Austin, TX 78755-2276, 512/338-1250 

Prometlieus Products, Inc., *75-75 Cushing Pkwy., Premont, CA 94538, 415/490-2370 

ProVliE Development, 222 22//t'/.SV., I luutiugton Beach, CA 92648, 714/969-2431 

PS Publishing, Inc., 90 Green St. #/, San Prancisco, CA 94133, 415/433-4698 




QMS Inc., / Magnum Pass, .Mobile, AL 36618, 205/633-4.^00, 8(X)/631-2692 

Quark. \uc., 300 S. Jackson UlOO, Dentvr, CO 80209, 303/9.54-2211 

Queue, Inc., 5 Chapel Hill Dr, Pairjield, CT 064.52, 20.5/335-0908 

Qume Corp., 2.550 Qume Dr, .SanJo.se, CA 95139, 408/4.52-4000, 800/223-2479 




Radco & Associates/'Fit to Print, 17746 Uf Sierra Hwy., Canyon Country, CA 91351, 805/298-7251 
Radius, Inc., 404 E. Plumeria Dr, San Jose, CA 951.54, 408/434- 1010 ‘ 

Reach Technologies, Inc., P.O. Box 9802, Austin, IX 78766, 512/832-0445 
RealData, Inc., 78 N. Main St., South Norwalk, CN 06854, 20.5/255-2732 

Relax Technology, Inc., 3101 Whipple Pd. #22. Ihiion City, CA 94587, 415/471-6112, 800/848-1313 
Rely Technologies, lTic.,36JPKSt., Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/661-7.559 
Remote Measurement Systems, 26.1^ Eastlake Ave. 4L200, Seattle, WA 98102, 206/328-2255 
REMS Software, .'J.S‘69 1 59th Ave. NE 4L110, Pedmond, \V^/\ 98052, 206/88.5-7000 
Rodime Systems, 29525 Chagrin Blvd. H214, Pepper Pike, OH 44122, 216/765-8414 
Ryad,252y /'’iV. Grand Ave. io50, Santa Ana, CA 92701, 714/558-0662 



SatorlSofxwarc,2815 .Second Are. #599. Seattle, WA 98121, 206/44.5-0765 

SBTCorp., One Harbor Dr, Sausalito, CA 94965, 415/331-9900 

Searle Software International, P.O. Box 87, Mukilteo, \V^/\ 98275, 206/35.5-9229 

Seiko Instruments USA, Inc., 11.50 Pingwood CL, San Jose, CA 951.51, 408/943-9100, 800/55.5-5315, 8(X)/ 55.5-5.5 12 in California 

Select Microsystems, Inc., 40 Ihangle Center H211, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, 914/245-4670 

Shana Enterprises, 9704 54th Ave. 11200, Edmonton, AL Canada T6E 0A9, 403/4.58-6548 

Shiva Corp., 222 .^rr/S7. #/299. Cambridge, M A 02 142, 617/661-2026, 800/458-3550 

Sierra On-Line, Inc., P.O. Box 485, Coarsegold, CA 93614, 209/683-6858, 800/.544-7448 

Sigma Designs, 46501 Landing Pkwy, Premont, CA 94538, 415/770-0100 

Silicon Beach Softw'are, P.O. Box 2614.50, San Diego, CA 92126, 619/695-6956 

Simon & Schuster, / Gulf& Western Plaza, New York, NY 1002.5, 212/373-8882, 800/624-002.5, 800/624-0024 in New Jersey 
Smith Micro Software, Inc., P.O. Box 7137, Huntington Beach, CA92615, 714/964-0412 
Softflair, \nc.,8753 Park View, Milwaukee, Wl 5.5226, 414/778-7200 

SoftStyle, Inc., 7/92 Kalanianaole Hwy. H205, Honolulu, HI 96825, 808/396-6.568, 800/367-5600 

Softsync, Inc., 162 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, 212/685-2080 

SoftView, Inc., 4820 Adohr Ln., Ste. P, Camarillo, CA 9.5010, 805/388-2626, 800/622-6829 



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Software BrIdRe, lnc.,97I0S. 700 E #109, Semdv, UT 84070, 801/572-1135 
Software Complement, P.O. Box 1123, Milford, PA 18337, 717/686-5592 

Software Discoveries, Inc., 137 Krawski Dr, South Windsor, CT 06074, 203/872-1024, 800/437-5200 

Software for RecoRiiition Technologies, 55 Academy Dr, Rochester, NY 14623, 716/359-3024 

Software Power Co., PO. Box 14133, Premont, CA 94539, 415/490-6086 

Software Products, 7230 Oliver St., ienham, MD 20706, 301/577-9207 

Software Products Division, 22(S/2 S. Avalon Blvd., Carson, CA 90745-4190, 213/835-6077 

Software Supply, 599 N Mathilda Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, 408/749-9311, 800/443-0100 

Software Ventures, Inc., 2907 Claremont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705, 415/644-3232, 800/336-6477, 800/336-6478 

Soft weaver, 200 7th Avo. #120, Santa Cruz. CA 95062, 408/425-8700, 800/WE AVER2 in California 

Solatia Electronics, 7887 Dunbrook Rd., Ste. A, San Diego, CA92126, 619/566-1701 

Solutions. Inc.,2.9i\/^//>/ St., PO. Box 989-11. Montpelier, VP 05602. 802/229-0368 

SPECTRA Micro Development, P.O. Box 41795, Tucson, AZ 85717, 602/884-7402 

Spectrum Digital Systems, Inc., 2702 #112, Madison, Wl 53704-3122, 608/244-4300, 800/541-6661 
Spinnaker Software Corp., 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/494-1200, 800/826-0706 
Springboard Software, 7808 Creekridge Circle, Minneapolis, MS 55435, 612/944-3915, 800/654-6301 
StatSoft, Inc., 2^32^: 10th St. #4, lUlsa, OK 74104, 918/583-4149 

Strategic Planning Systems, 75233 Ventura Blvd. #708, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-2293, 818/784-6863 
Strawberry Tree Computers, Inc., 750 A' Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, 408/736-3083 

Structural Measurement Systems, 657 River Oaks Pktvy, San Jose, CA 95134, 408/263-2200, 800/654-5147, 800/247-4994 in California 

Sunol Systems, Inc., 7777 Quarry in., Pleasanton, CA 94566, 415/484-3322 

SuperMac Technology, 295 A'* Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, C.^ 94043, 415/964-8884 

Supra Corp., 7733 Commercial Way, Albany, OR 97321, 503/967-9081 

Survivor Software, Ltd., 11222 ia Cienega Blvd. #450, Ingleivood, CA 90304, 213/410-9527 

Symimetry Corporation, 767 E. University, Mesa, AZ 85203, 800/624-2485 

Systat, Inc., 2902 Central St., Evanston, !! 60201, 312/864-5670 



T/Maker Company, 7973 Landings Dr, Mountain View, CA 94043, 415/962-0195 

Tangent Technologies, Ltd., 5720 Peachtree Pkwy. #100, Norcross, GA 30092, 404/662-0366 

Target Software, 14206 S. W. 136th St., .Miami, Pi 32186, 305/252-0892, 800/622-5483 

TaxCalc Software, Inc., 4210 \V: Vickery, Port W^rth, TX 76107, 817/738-3122, 800/527-2669 

Technalysis Services, 14555 DeBell Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, 408/475-2488 

Tecmar, Inc., 6225 Cochran Rd., Solon, OH 44139, 216/349-1009 

Teleiypesetting Co., 474 Commomvealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, 617/266-6637 

Telos Corp., 3^20 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405, 213/450-2424 

Texas Instruments, y^Q Box 809063, Dallas, TX 75380-9063, 800/527-3500 

THINK Technologies, Inc., 735 South Rd., Bedford, MA 01730, 617/275-4800, 800/64-THINK 

ThunderWarc, Inc., 27 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563, 415/254-6581 

Toshiba America, Inc., 97^0 /;Y7>7t^77//'77., Irvine, CA 92718, 714/380-3000, 800/433-5999 

Total Systems Integration, 99 W. 10th Ave. #333. Eugene, OR 97401, 503/345-7395, 800/874-2288 

Touchstone Corporation, 909 Electric Ave., Seal Beach, CA90740, 213/598-7746, 800/531-0450 

TPS Electronics, 4047 Van Sport St., Palo Alto, CA 94303, 415/856-6833 

Tri-Data, 505 7f. Middlejield Rd., Mountain View, CA 94043-4082, 415/969-3700 

T^'mlahs Corporation, 211 E. 7th St., Austin, TX 78701, 512/478-0611 



Unicom Software Development Group, 297 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907, 401/467-5600, 800/556-2828 in New England 
Univation, Inc., 7237 California Circle, Milpitas, CA 95035, 408/263-1200, 800/221-5842 




Vamp, Inc., 6753 Selma Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028, 213/466-5533 

v^rityper, 77 Mount Pleasant Ave., East Hanover, NJ 07936, 201/887-8000, 800/631-8134 

Versacad Corp., 7372 Prince Dr, Huntington Beach, C A 92647, 714/847-9960 

Versatcc, 2710 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051, 408/988-2800, 800/538-6477, 800/341-6060 in California 
Vertical Business Software,Inc., 662 Main St., New Rochelle, NY 10801, 914/632-8305, 800/992-9914 
Videx, Inc., J105N.E. Circle Blvd., Corvalis, OR 97330, 503/758-0521 

Viking Technologies, Inc., 174 Bellevue Ave., .Newport, RI 02840, 401/849-4925, 800/437-0033 
Visionary Electronics, Inc., 141 Parker At'e., San Francisco, CA 94118, 415/751-8811 
Visual Information, Inc., 16309 Doublegrove St., La Puente, CA 91744, 818/918-8548 

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Walker Richer 8t Quinn, 2825 Eastlake Ave., Ste. E, Seattle, WA 98102, 206/324-0350 

W'arp Nine Engineering, Inc., 77.57 W County Rd. B #107, Saint Paul. MN 55113, 800/654-5294, 800/328-6795 ext. 433 

Western Automation l.aboratories, Inc., 1700 N. 55th St., Boulder, CO 80301, 303/449-6400, 800/227-4637 

W'estern Computer, Inc., 17781 Mitchell St., Irvine, CA 92714, 714/553-1611 

W'iestern Software Associates, 770 El Dorado Rd., Walnttt Creek, CA 94595, 415/935-3673 

W'hlsper Microcomputer Products, P.O. Box 162504, Austifi, IX 78716-2504, 512/329-0303, 800/622-2210 

White Pine Software, Inc., 9^ Route 10h\, P.O. Box 1108, Amherst, NH 03031, 603/886-9050 

Williams tk Macias Microcomputer Products, 7?0. Box 19206, Spokatie, WA 99219, 509/458-6312, 800/752-4400 

WordPerfect Corp., 2«y? W Center St., Orem, UT 84057, 801/227-5000 

Working Computer, /^O. Box 86602, San Diego, CA 92138, 619/483-1453 

Working Software, Inc., 321 Alvarado St., Ste. H, Monterey, CA 93940, 408/375-2828, 800/331-4321, 800/851-1986 in California 
Worthington Balicock, Inc., 4004 S.W. Barbur Ave., Portland, OR 97 201, 503/228-8223, 800/423-3500 
WOS Data Systems, 455 Au.^tin, Colby, KS 67701, 913/843-8101, 800/843-8101 




YARDI Systems, Inc., 930 Laguna St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 805/687-4245 




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The Muzzle protects your confidential files, 
documents, and other sensitive data. A lock- 
ing bracket effectively prevents the Mac SE 
from being powered up, eliminating access to 
any data on the hard disk. The entire Muzzle 
can also be secured to a desk or workstation 
with a cable or chain to physically secure the 
Mac in place. Muzade $49-95 
MacTUt SE/ Muzzle $129-95 




Everyone who needs the power of the Mac 11 also needs 
the space that the Monitor and Processor occupy. If 
there is no desk space to organize work and lay out proj • 
ects, the Mac IPs effectiveness is limited. The new Mac II 
Workstation takes a totally new approach to workstation 
ergonomics. This free standing workstation sits 
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With a silky-smooth, one hand motion, your 
Macintosh can be adjusted to relieve operator 
stress, ease neck, back, and eye strain, and in- 
crease productivity. The MacTilt elevates the 
Mac 4", and provides 30° tilt and 360° rotation 
at the touch of a finger. $89-95 




Mouse Cleaner 

360 ”” 

By regularly cleaning your Mouse, you can 
eliminate sluggish operation and expensive 
repair bills. By removing the grime from the 
tracking rollers, fi'ee cursor movement is 
quickly restored. Compatible with IBM, 
Apple, Atari, Amiga, Microsoft Mouse, and 
others. $l6.95 




Pedestal Base 

for Liu'ge Screen ,)isplay 

The same outstanding features and user bene- 
fits of the MacTilt are now available for your 
Large Screen Display, Commercial CRT, Per- 
sonal or Portable Computer, or Graphics 
Monitor. Enjoy a better viewing angle and re- 
duced eye, neck, and back strain. Call for 
specific models. $89.95-$99-95 




MacBuffer LW" 

MacBuffer LW increases office productivity by eliminat- 
ing tlie need to wait for the LaserWriter. This means that 
every operator on tlie network can send MacBuffer LW 
their print jobs and get back to work. MacBuffer LW can 
handle unlimited Macs and LaserWriters, provides for 
full queue management, and is totally transparent to 
operators. Available in 1,2,3, and 4 Meg models. Call for 
pricing. 




MacBuffef 

If you are an Imagewriter user, MacBuffer will 
automatically reduce the time the Macintosh 
spends waiting for the printer. In addition to 
less time spent waiting, MacBuffer enables 
two Macs to share one printer and has Local 
Copy and Single Sheet Mode. Get the most out 
of your Imagewriter I or 11 with MacBuffer. 
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Imagine a Macintosh screen the size of your home TV. 
Only clearer and sharper. 



They came. They saw. 

They got eyestrain. 

But you don’t have to 
be from outer space to • 
know that’s exactly what' 
happens when you stare at 
a computer screen for too long 
Unless, of course, 
that screen happens 
to be unusually large, 
and easy to read. 

Like the new Stretch Screen',” 
from NSI. 

Stretch Screen is a 20" high-resolution 
monitor that works with any Macintoshr 
from the 1 28K all thp way up to the new SE. 

It’s got over a million screen pixels 
[1 024 X 1 024, to be exact) so you get a full 
80 dots per inch of crystal clear viewing. 
Which means that laying out multiple 
pages or tracking monster spreadsheets 
a beauty to behold. And tilt 
and swivel positioning makes 
it easy not only on the eyeballs, 
but on the neck and back, too. 

That’s not 
all. Unlike other 
large monitors. 

Open the Mac, snap in the. the Stretch Screen 

liSethel^c. installs in just fifteen 



minutes, thanks to a unique 
clip-on card that simply 
snaps onto your Macintosh’s 
motherboard. [The cable fits 
neatly into the security slot.) 
With no soldering required, the 
Stretch Screen won’t void the Apple 
warranty, and it comes 
with a full, one-year 
warranty of its own. 




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' There’s nothing alien about wanting 
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That’s why we built the Jump! Board 020™ 
This clip-on upgrade installs in the sam^ 
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New Products 

Information on the Mac’s latest software, 
hardware, and accessories 



Edited by Eileen Drapiza 

This section covers Macintosh products for- 
mally announced but not yet evaluated by 
Macworld, All prices are suggested retail. 
Please call vendors for information on 
availability. 



SOFTWARE 



AEC Information Manager Database that en- 
ables design and construction managers to 
automate, schedule, organize, and track the 
many aspects of a project. 1MB min. mem- 
ory. $595. AEC Management Systems, Inc., 
301/428-3694. 

Arithmetic. Algebra 1, and MacFunction 

Course supplements or programs for self- 
study and review of mathematical con- 
cepts. 512K min. memory. $49.95. True 
Basic, 603/643-3882. 

Client Portrait Double Helix 

for client management in law offices. 

512K min. memor\'. $59.50. GreenLight, 
312/782-6496. 

Click & Clip Clip art software ciuarteiiy. 
Includes business, seasonal, and sports 
borders, and newsletter head artwork. 
Single issue $39.95; one-\'ear subscrip- 
tion $124.50. Studio Advertising Art, 
702/641-7041. 

Command 'IVpographer Typography pack- 
age with user-dehnable kerning; automatic 
hyj:)henation and justification; and otiline 
help. Outputs to PostScript devices. 1MB 
min. memory $495. Laser Text Publishing 
Systems, 212/925-4551. 

DA-Switcher Utility that enables use of mul- 
tiple sets of desk accessories and grouping 
of individual sets with specified applica- 
tions. 512KE min. memory $49.95. Olduvai 
Software, 305/665-4665. 



DrawStructures Chemical structure library 
recjuiring a drawing program that reads 
PICT files. Not compatible with Cricket 
Draw. $79.95; educational discount avail- 
able. Modern Graphics, 317/253-4316. 

Dr. B. Careful Teaches students (grades 6 
to 11) about AIDS. Divided into definition, 
transmission, prevention, treatment, ques- 
tion, exercise, and game sections. 512K 
min. memory. $70 Canadian. CourseMaker 
International Inc., 416^738-8722. 

EmDash Fonts Downloadable laser fonts, 
including ArchiText, UpStart, and Basic. 
Price depends on font and style. EmDash, 
312/441-6699. 

Fast Forms Construction Kit Form design 
program. Includes gray shades, hairlines, 
foreground and background drawing 
planes for visible and invisible objects, text 
editing, interactive fields, some unique ob- 
ject alignment, distribution and copy/pasie 
techniques, and the option to fill out the 
forms on screen. 512K min. memory. $89. 
New Directions Software, 403/250-1969. 

FlowMaster Flowcharting system for pro- 
fessional advertising media. Cost analysis 
capability View information as a flowchart, 
bar chart, or as a cost/'rating summary re- 
port. 512K min. memory. $495. Select 
Micro Systems, Inc., 914/245-4670. 

Grant Manager and Personnel Manager 

Grant Manager is for grant and fund ac- 
counting; Personnel Manager is a compan- 
ion program. 512K min. memory. $495 
each. Niles ik As.sociates, 415/655-6666. 



GraphPainter For creating presentation- 
ciuality graphs. Includes eight drawing 
tools and seven curve fits. 512K min. mem- 
ory. $50. Greg Brasel, 314/256-3317. 

HB Music Engraver Music notation soft- 
ware. Automatically positions all musical 
characters and text with a user-modifiable 
rule base. 1MB min. memory. $350, pub- 
lisher s version $5000. H.B. Imaging, Inc., 
801/225-7222. 

Icon-It Customize floating icon bars for 
frequently used menu items, desk accesso- 
ries, F-keys, and macros. 512KE min. 
memory. $79.95. Olduvai Software, 
305/665-4665. 

MacNail Microsoft Excel template collec- 
tion for construction cost estimation, with 
cost-control worksheet and macros. $145. 
Turtle Creek Software, 607/589-6858. 

Mac 'N Med Medical office management 
system. Regi.sters patients, tracks insurance 
and financial information, prints insurance 
forms, generates patient financial state- 
ments and deposit slips. 512K min. mem- 
ory. $399.95, multiuser $599.95, demo 
disk $10. Somerville MD Associates, 
302/678-2131. 

MasterWorks Three courses covering Mi- 
crosoft Works database, spreadsheet, and 
form-letter function. 512K min. memory. 
$49.95 each. Personal Training Svstems, 
408/559-8635. 

Maze Survival Strategy game in which the 
goal is to keep a colony of bugs alive inside 
a changing maze. 128K min. memory. 
$39.95. Olduvai Software, 305/665-4665. 

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MiniCad" 

Let Others Speak for Us 

Cnmpiitar Graphics: 

•'MiniCati even heals AutoCAD., it 
curnhines 2D and 3D fearurc-s in one 
package., a sophisticated 2D and 3D 
drafting program that is clearly in- 
rcndwl for the |jrofessional CAD user." 

CAD/CAIVIJminial: 

"A major conlendor in the Macintosh 
CAD markciplacc.... MiniCad offers 
enormous functions for the price." 



Gniphic Perspective: 

"MiniCad... is ii wonderful example of 
one of those pieces of software that 
slips onto the scene unannounced, 
ijuietly surpassing all similar pro- 
grams that break in on the market 
with a huge splash." 

Persoiuil Pubibihing: 

"MiniCad bridges the gap between 
everyday drawing applications and 
professional CAD programs, and it 
combines the best of !>olh." 

MucWoild: 

"MiniCad achovies an ideal balance of 
simplicity and capability.. Don't let 
the name fool you.. Uiere is nothing 
"mini" about MiniCad except the 
price “ 




Priced at only $495.00 

MiniCad™ 

is developed and produced by 

Diehl Graphsoft Inc. 

8370 Court Ave. 

Suite 202 Ellicott City. Md. 21043 
301-461-9488 



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New Products 



PICThres Object-oriented clip art collec- 
tion created in SuperPaint and stored in 
PICT format. Ad-Techs, 806/353-7063. 

PlXymbois One PostScript-based pictorial 
svmbol fonts. $70. Page Studio Graphics, 
602/839-2763. 

P.O.S.. Mac Point-of-Sale Includes invoice, 
price quote preparation, inventory control, 
accounts receivable, sales tax tracking, 
multiple commission calculations, and 
more than 24 levels of reporting. Requires 
a non-run-time version of Omnis3 Plus. 
$995. Software Complement, 717/686-5592. 

Power Ibols Software engineering tool set 
designed to support softw^are from concept 
through code to maintenance. 512K min. 
memory. $3295. Iconix Softw^are, 
213/458-0092. 

Professional Layout Ibmplates Collection I 

Forty templates for PageMaker 2.0. 512K 
min. memory. $69.95. Performance Soft- 
ware, 919/39^0233. 

Professor Craps Casino craps simulation 
teaches how to bet and lay odds, under- 
stand the table and percentages, and devel- 
op personal strategy. 512K min. memory. 
$49.95. Scorpio Systems International, 
415/398-5155. 

Prosper Sales and client management pro- 
gram tracks and schedules activities. In- 
cludes a partly user-definable relational 
database. Provides computer-assisted 
phone calling. 512K min. memory. $495 in- 
cluding 1200-haud modem. Twenty-first 
Century Software, 504/888-3600. 

Read-lt! and Read-lt! TS Both provide opti- 
cal character recognition for 300-dpi scan- 
ners. Reaci-It! TS is for ThunderScan. 512K 
min. memory; requires 300-dpi scanner. 
$295 each. Olduvai Softw'are, 

305/665-4665. 

Reggie Converts MacDrau\ MacPaint, and 
clipboard images to DEC s ReGIS or SIXEL 
formats for importing Mac graphics into 
DEC host-based applications. 512K min. 
memory. $99. White Pine Software, 
603/886-9050. 



RMS Plus Restaurant management system 
with Inventory Control and MenuManage- 
ment base modules. 512KE min. memory; 
requires Onmis 3 Plus. $995; Accounts Pay- 
able, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, 
and Restaurant Payroll modules $125 each. 
Keller Systems, Inc., 305/833-3358. 

Thinking Tools More than 250 electronic/ 
electrical symbols in PICT format. $49.95. 
Thinking Tools, 301/383-6490. 

3+ for Macintosh Extension of the 3+ net- 
work operating system that allows integra- 
tion with IBM PCs and compatibles. 3C(^m 
Corp., 408/562-6400. 

TFaid Names Tool for developing new 
product, service, and business names. 51 2K 
min. memory. $159. Applied Sy.stems and 
Technologies, Inc., 315/675-8584. 

Word Finder 220,000-synonym thesaurus 
that installs as a DA. $59.95. Micrc^yiics, 
716/248-9150. 



HARDWARE 



ADC-1 Data acquisition and control system 
for external devices. Scientific data collec- 
tion, process control, and energy manage- 
ment tasks. Price varies with model. 

Remote Measurement Systems, 
206/328-2255. 

DaynaFile External SCSI disk drive that 
lets a Mac read from and write to MS-DOS- 
formatted data disks w'hile running Mac 
applications. $799. Dayna Communica- 
tions, Inc., 801/531-0600. 

hammer Hard Drive Series SCSI ma.ss- 
storage sub-systems include 91MB inter- 
nal hard disk for the Mac II, and 155- and 
300MB external hard disks. Bundled with 
Hard Disk Partition, Hard Disk Util, and 
other commercial utilities. hammer91, 
$2495; 155, $3495; 300, $4595. FWB 
Softw'are, 415/474-8055. 

LaserWriter Accelerator Board Based on 
68020 with 2MB of RAM. Under $2000. 

Blue Whale Technologies, 305/665-4665. 

LBI Repeater Box Amplifier device for large 
offices that doubles the standard AppleTalk 
cable distance hetw'een Macs. $249. Lut/ky- 
Baird Assoc., 818/347-7791. 

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RESIDENT 



Analyze! The Only Thing 
Powerful Than The Boss. 



Why is Analyze!'” more 
powerful than the boss? Because 
like your boss it’s fast, efficient 
and most importantly, Analyze! 
is never wrong. 

Analyze! is an electronic 
spreadsheet program for the 
Macintosh” that turns you and 
your computer into financial 
wizards. Analyze! is easy to use, 
yet sophisticated enough to keep 
track of anything, from your 
checkbook to your company’s 
general ledger. 

Analyze! commands can be 
entered from the mouse or 
keyboard. Dozens of built-in 
functions make complex 
calculations effortless. 



Your data can be presented 
using one of Analyzefs 8 
breathtaking graph models. As 
many as 4 graphs in 2, 4 or 16 
colors can be displayed to create 
professional looking sales reports. 

Additional features like a 
macro language to automate your 
spreadsheets, powerful print, sort 
functions and compatibility with 
other popular spreadsheets will 
make you wonder how you ever 
lived without Analyze!. 

Analyze! is easy to learn, 
supported by an informative 
reference manual and our 
expertly trained Technical 
Support Division. 



for a dealer demonstration of this fine 
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New Products 



The Macnificr Projection system that dupli- 
cates the Mac’s video display in liquid 
quartz. Works in conjunction with an over- 
head projector. $1500; with collapsible pro- 
jector $2495. Comtrex, 714/855-6600. 

Mirror Internal Drives 300 SE and 450 SE 
and internal drives for the Mac SE. SCSI 
select and termination switch and shock 
mounts. Bundled with LaserSpeed and Per- 
sonal SafetyNet. Optional shell houses dis- 
placed 800K drive. 300 SE $1095, 450 SE 
$1395; $100 rebate with return of 800K 
drive mechanism. Mirror Technologies, 
612/426-3276. 

Neotech Image Grabber Video digitizer 
with 768- by 576-pixel resolution. Full sup- 
port for 8-bit gray-scale images in EPSF and 
TIFF. $1350. Neotech, Dorman Rd., Cam- 
berley, Surrey, GU15 3DF, England (tele- 
phone: 0276-685005). 

'IFueForni Mardware/software system for 
filling out any form on the Mac screen. 
Teaches the computer to fill in repetitive 
information. Includes scanner, SCSI inter- 



face, MacScan and TrueForm software. 
$1995. Spectrum Digital Svstems, 
608/244-4300, 800/541-6661. 

ThrboLaser/'PS 8-ppm laser printer. Com- 
patible with applications that use Post- 
Script drivers. Input/output trays hold 250 
sheets of paper. 35 built-in Adobe fonts. 
$3995, add-on PostScript board for current 
users $1995. AST Research, 714/863-1333. 



ACC:i*SSORlKS 



ClearPak Flexible, transparent storage de- 
vice for 12 3V2-in. disks. Optional binder 
(8V2 by 14 in.). $3 each. ClearPak Designs, 
312 / 262 - 6000 . 

CF Laseredge High-Resolution Papers 

T^'pesetting paper for high-contra.st repro 
proofs from plain-paper imaging devices. 
Price varies with size, weight, and quantity. 
CG Graphic Arts Supply, 212/925-5332. 

MoiisePouch Vinyl pocket that attaches 
to monitor’s side for mouse or up to 
eight disks. $5.95. H&H Enterprises, 
714/737-1376. 



Porta Mac Organizer Desktop organizer for 
carrying Mac, mouse, keyboard, external 
drive, removable disk holder, power cord, 
and mouse pad. $125. Stratton Laboratory, 
617/899-3498. 

TR-300 Recharge Kit Recharging kit for 
laser printer toner cartridges. $27.95. 
Chenesko Products, 516/736-7977. 

llltrasuede Designer SoftWear Dust covers 
for the Mac 512K, Plus, and SE. Monogram- 
ming, appliqueing, imprinting, and silk 
screening services available. Call for price 
quotes. Designer Products, 918/299-1808, 
800/223-2687. □ 

To have your product considered for in- 
clusion in New ?voduQis, send announce- 
ment with product name, description, 
minimum memory, peripherals required, 
price, company name, and phone num- 
ber to New Products Editor, Macworld, 

501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107. 
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NEW! VideoEx - Expand your Mac II 
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VA: Composite Video Adapter for 
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Connects your Macintosh Computer to 
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projectors. Harmless to install. 

• VA-Plus for the 128 to Plus $99.95 

• VA-SE for the Macintosh SE $149.95 



Memory expansion kits for the 
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• Ram II - Two megabytes* $599 

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Quick Tips 

Answers to your questions 



by Lon Poole 



The June Quick Tips suggested captur- 
ing screen snapshots of the Key Caps 
keyboards you display by pressing the 
Shift, §€, or Option keys with the aid of the 
Camera desk accessory. Several readers 
have written to suggest the following 
easier method: 

1. Open the Key Caps window and 
press a combination of Shift, §§, and Op- 
tion keys to display the desired font set. 

2. While pressing the keys, freeze the 
Key Caps display by placing the pointer 
over the Key Caps window title bar and 
pressing the mouse button. (You may also 
place the pointer at the upper-left corner 
of the screen.) Then release the keys-as 
long as you hold the mouse button down, 
the Key Caps display doesn’t change. 

3. While holding down the mouse but- 
ton, press §§-Shift-3 to create a MacPaint 
document containing an image of the , 
screen, §§-Shift-4 to print the screen image 
on an ImageWriter, or §€-Shift-Caps Lock-4 
to print just the Key Caps window. 

4. Let go of the mouse button to begin 
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The LEN function normally works with 
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Q Changing the Desktop Pattern 

When I try to change the back- 
ground on the desktop with the Control 
Panel, it changes in the Control Panel but 
not on the desktop. Any suggestions? 
iMrry Siegel 
Ida CompuServe 

A The Control Panel allows you to 

choose among 38 predefined desk- 
top patterns or design your own. The Con- 



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black, and clicking on a black space makes 
it white. As you change the magnified pat- 
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Q Nonsense in WriteNow 

1 use the spelling checker in Write- 
Now extensively, but when 1 noticed that it 
was not picking up some typos, 1 investi- 
gated. I found the dictionary has some 
words that should not be there. Some, like 
allotis and orgasmatronx, don’t even ex- 
ist. I’ve compiled a list of more than 1200 of 



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these expendable words and nonwords 
iliat our department has found in the dic- 
tionary. You can remove tliem by selecting 
them and clicking WriteNotp's Forget 
button. 

Why were the developers so sloppy? 
Robert Hollciml 
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Don’t remove those nonsense 
words! Doing so actually removes 
perfectly good words from the dictionary 

You may see some nonsense words 
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word. The nonsense words \'ou see are 
spurious derivatives that WriteNoir 
didn’t catch. 

WriteNoir lets those counterfeit 
words pa.ss as correctly spelled alternatives 
becau.se it mistakes them for legitimate 
words in its dictionary. When looking up a 
word in its dictionary, actually 

looks up a numeric code calculated from 
the word. If the program finds the calcu- 
lated code in the dictionary, it a.ssumes the 
.spelling is accurate. By chance, a nonsen.se 
word may generate the same code as a 
legitimate word. If .so, the non.sen.se word 

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seems genuine because its numeric code 
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If you remove a nonsense word you 
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Window Tiles 

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command that rotates through the open 
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another signature, and repeat until you’ve 
set up all the signatures the piece requires. 

To substitute one signature for anoth- 
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and paste it at the spot just vacated. As long 
as you use equivalent meters in parallel 
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Thickening a Cricket Graph Plot 

Tip: In Cricket Graph, the Overlay 
Plot button lets you add points from a new 
data set to an existing scatter or line plot. 
Mowever, it won’t let you overlay a data set 
with only one data point or a data set con- 
taining data that fall on a perfect vertical or 
horizontal line. If you try, a message pops 
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Even when the data points easily fall with- 
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impossible. 1 have encountered many situa- 
tions with real scientihe data where this 
has been an issue. 

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laying a single data point. First, duplicate 
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one of the two rows bv some minuscule 



amount. Finally, overlay both data points 
on your graph. Cricket Graph plots the 
tw'o nearly identical points on top of each 
other as if there were only one point. Sup- 
pose you have plotted cases 1 through 10 
and want to add case 11, which has only 
one data point: .v= 3.5, = 2.6. Create a sec- 
ond data point for case 11 with .v= 3.50001 
and v = 2.60001. When you overlay the two 
points, they will appear as one on the 
graph. 

A similar trick applies when adding or 
creating plots of data that fall on a vertical 
or horizontal line. To plot a horizontal line, 
for instance, just change one of the v values 
(vertical axis) by a trivial amount to make 
the v-range nonzero. Once they are plot- 
ted, you can change the range of the 
axes at will. 

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Appleton, Wisconsin 

Reduce Scrolling 

Tip: You can reduce the time spent 
scrolling to find documents you use regu- 
larly. Prefix the names of those documents 

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Mac under the Rising Sun 

Tip: I have recently returned from a 
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Macs sold in Japan have the garden- 
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problem. Japanese current is nominally 100 
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Many areas suffer brownouts in the after- 
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Anotlier point to remember is that 
most Japanese outlets are not grounded. In 
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Prefix document and 
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and letters in the 
order shown here. 

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adapter, also available there. The trans- 
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run a wire from the transformer base plate 
to a grounding point. 

Modems pose an interesting problem. 
A U.S. modem, using tlie Bell standard and 
a plug-in adapter powder supply, wall work 
fine in Jajxin at 1200 baud, but wall be ille- 
gal. Japanese modems use the CCITT stan- 
dard; Bell modems are not approved. But 
the CCITT and Bell standards overlap at 
1200 baud, so they are compatible. A Bell 
can connect to a CCITT at 1200, but not at 
any other rate. There is no problem (other 
than the high cost of the long-distance 
phone call) in calling up your favorite US. 
BBS from Japan using your US. modem. 
Most Jaj:)anese BBSs use 1200 baud, and 
several are in English. 

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It usually costs twace as much in Japan. 
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Getting Started 
with Music 

Scoring and sequencing, mastering MIDI, 
and outfitting your Mac to make music 




Music to the Macs 

The Macintosli is a muhiialented per- 
former. In fact, a Mac can play so many mu- 
sical roles that it might help to briefly 
audition each type before examining the 
most popular ones (see “Music Makers’). 

mSequencing Several programs turn 
the Mac into an electronic multiirack re- 
corder that records, edits, and plays hack 
performances using one or more synthe- 
sizers attached to the Mac. The alchemy 
that makes this possible goes b\* the name 
.Musical Instrument Digital Interface 
(MIDI ), a synthesizer-communications 
standard built into virtually every synthe- 
sizer made today. 



by Jim Heid 



mScorhig The process of putting 
notes on paper is traditionally a grueling 
task for compo.sers, who mu.st wrestle with 
staff paper and white-out, and for music- 
publishing houses, which usually use a mu- 
tated typewriter called a Musicwriter. Scor- 
ing programs will do for composers what 
word processors have done for writers. 



■ Composition A fascinating new 
genre of programs, called intelligent in- 
struments, lets the Mac collaborate with 
you by storing groups of phrases you have 
entered, analyzing their structure, and 
rearranging the notes into new rhythms 
and patterns based on the originals. 

• ■ Sound editing On some s\ nthe- 
sizers, adjusting the many knobs and but- 



For Mac owners with a musical bent, this is 
a wonderful time to be alive. The Mac may 
be best known for changing the way peo- 
ple publish, but it's becoming a prominent 
force in the way people make music, too. 
Whether you’re a beginner who has trou- 
ble pecking out Chopsticks, a him score 
composer, or lead guitarist for the Bleed- 
ing Eardrums, there's a place for the Mac in 
your musical life. 

And you don't have to break the bank 
to find it. You can sample the world of com- 
puter music applications for nothing more 
than the price of a program and a cable to 
hook your Macintosh into a stereo sy.siem 
(see “Music on a Guitar String'’). When 
N'ou're read}’ to move up to a sy nthesizer, 
you'll be plea.santly surprised. The .same 
electronics ad\*ances that have spawned 
$9.95 digital watches have made po.ssible 
synthesizers that cost less than a color tele- 
vision. This month, I look at the ways in 
which \x)u and a Mac can make beautiful 
music together. 



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617/772-9471 


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tons required to produce a desired sound 
is so difficult that many players stick with 
the instruments’ built-in sounds, called 
patches (named in honor of the pioneering 
synthesizers of the sixties, whose many 
sound-generating modules were linked by 
patch cables like those for a telephone 
switchboard). Sound editing programs 
called patch editors let you draw and ma- 
nipulate the waveforms that describe a 
sound s qualities, then transfer them to a 
synthesizer s memory. 

■ Patch management Most synthe- 
sizers can store dozens of patches, but that 
isn’t enough for real sound hounds. Patch 



librarians are database managers for 
patches; these programs transfer the set- 
tings making up each patch to or from a 
Macintosh disk. Patch librarians also let 
you cut and paste patches from one file to 
another, so you can organize sounds ac- 
cording to your performance needs. 

Many patch editors also provide librar- 
ian features. 

■ Sound track production For years, 
film and recording studios have used a tim- 
ing standard called the SMPTE edit time 

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for Society of Motion Picture and Television 
Engineers.) The SMPTE code allows engi- 
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Songs for Beginners 

You say you’re neither a synthesizer 
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can still choose from a combination of pro- 
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tional equipment. Foremost among such 
packages are Great Wave Softw^are’s Con- 
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introductions to computer music applica- 
tions and sliare many ifaits with their more 
sophisticated siblings. 

With all three programs, you enter 
music on conventional staves by using 
the mouse and on-screen palettes, which 
provide one-click access to note and rest 
values. MusieWorks also provides a pro- 
portional-notation display, in w^hich notes 
with longer durations are wider. Unlike the 
symbols in conventional music notation, 
proportional notation provides a graphic 
indication of a note’s duration (see “Mak- 
ing Note of It”). 

These programs also let you cut, copy, 
and paste passages and print your compo- 
sitions. None of the three programs are in- 
tended to be scoring tools, however, so 
don’t expect to find elements of music no- 
tation like tremolo slashes or glissando 
symbols. Such elements are the province of 
Electronic Arts’ Deluxe Music Construc- 
tion Set, Mark of the Unicorn’s Profes- 
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Systems’ forthcoming High Score (see 
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of Adobe Systems’ Sonata music font to pro- 
duce sharp copy on LaserWriters and other 
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support for the Sonata font, the ability to 
add lyrics, and a unique Copy Picture com- 
mand that copies part or all of a score to 
the Clipboard as a picture for pasting into 
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program. 

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Music on a Guitar String 



Sampling the Mac music waters 
need not mean parting with an 
entire paycheck. Concert- 
Ware-h ($69.95) lets you enter 
notes, print scores, play four- 
part music, and experiment 
with sound waves. For $89.95, 
Studio Session will introduce 
you to Macintosh-sampled in- 
struments. If music notation 
and Sanskrit look the same to 
you, Opcode Systems Music 
Mouse ($59.95) lets you make 
music with a mouse. 

The Mac’s built-in speaker 
wasn’t intended to reproduce 
anything more than alert 
beeps, so attaching the Mac to a 
stereo system or a small exter- 
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better sound To tap into a ster- 
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Vs-inch mini phone plug on 
one end that branches into two 
RCA phono plugs (Radio Shack 
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need a longer cable, add a 
patch extension cord (Radio 
Shack catalog number 
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phone plug to the jack to the 
right of the modem connector, 
as you face the back of the Mac; 
attach the RCA plugs to the AUX 
inputs on a receiver or an am- 
plifier. To avoid damaging the 
speakers and your ears when 
the Mac beeps, turn the re- 
ceiver’s volume down and use 
the Control Panel desk accesso- 
ry to turn the Mac’s speaker 
volume down. After turning on 
the power, adjust both volume 
controls to a comfortable level. 



ConcertWare-f- is also the best of the 
three if you want to learn about sound. 
Using the package’s Instrument Maker ap- 
plication, you draw and edit waveforms 
and define a sound envelope, which gov- 
erns a sound’s percussiveness. For exam- 
ple, a piano has a sharp attack (as the 
hammers hit the strings) and a gradual de- 
cay (as the strings stop vibrating and the 
sound fades out). Wind instruments have a 
gradual attack and little decay-until the 
musician runs out of breath. 

Aural Gratification 

Considering the Mac’s limited sound- 
synthesizing capabilities, the end product 
of Instrument Maker is surprisingly good. 
But if it’s not good enough for you, Can- 
cer tWare-h MIDI can send songs to a syn- 
thesizer-or let you enter songs from a 
synthesizer. If the notion of playing a song 
and then printing out its score sounds too 
good to be true, it is. Any performer’s ren- 
dition of a piece varies from the precise 
riming specified by music notation. Con- 
certWare-i- M/DZ-and professional se- 
quencer and scoring packages as well- 
must attempt to round off variances in tim- 
ing through a process called quantization. 



Generally the process works well, but you 
still must fine-tune the final scoi*e. 

If you don’t have a synthesizer and you 
aren’t happy with the Mac’s attempt to imi- 
tate one, consider Bogas Productions’ Stu- 
dio Session, the first Mac music program to 
use sampled sound. Sampled sound is a 
digitized version of the real thing, pro- 
duced by feeding an audio signal into a 
hardware device called an analog-to-digi- 
tal converter, which turns a continuously 
varying (analog) sound wave-the kind our 
ears recognize-into a series of numbers 
stored by sampling software. If you’ve ever 
marveled at a compact disk’s startling clari- 
ty, you’ve experienced the most common 
application of sampled sound. 

As explained in “Sampling Sound,” the 
quality of the more than 60 instrument 
sounds included with Studio Session can’t 
approach a compact disk’s realism. Still, it 
is remarkable. CompuServe and user- 
group libraries are brimming with songs 
and additional sounds, and you can create 
youv own with the Impulse Audio Dig- 
itizer, whose SotmdCap software was 

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A MIDI link enables you to manage a 
synthesizer's sounds using patch editors 
and librarians, but the real fun begins 
when you add a sequencer j^rogram. So 
named because they store sequences of 
notes, sequencers turn the Mac into a tape- 
less tape deck. Click a Record button, and 
the sequencer stores the MIDI data that a 
synthesizer transmits when you play it- 
data that indicate what keys you pressed, 



how long you pressed them, and (with 
some synthesizers) how hard. When you’re 
finished, click Rewind, then Play, and the 
synthesizer plays back your performance. 

But that’s just the beginning. Se- 
quencers let you create complete arrange- 
ments by using MIDI’s ability to control 
numerous synthesizers through 16 inde- 
pendent data channels. By playing back ex- 
isting tracks while recording new ones, you 
could send a bass and chord accompani- 
ment to Channel 1, a flute solo to Channel 
2, and a horn section to Channel 3. And the 
sound quality of the recording won't suffer 
as you add tracks. Sequencers store MIDI 
data, not actual sounds, so every {^layback 
is an original performance. 

If that doesn’t sound sweet enough, 
sequencers also enable you to edit re- 
corded sequences. Looping features cause 

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certain tracks to repeat. Transposition 
commands change a sequence s key signa- 
ture. Quantization commands correct tim- 
ing errors. Punch in features play a piece 
up to a predetermined point, then snap 
into record mode to let you rerecord a pas- 
sage. Editing features let you alter the char- 
acteristics of individual notes. 

Sequencer shoppers have several im- 
pressive products to choose from. Indeed, 
there are more professional-quality Mac se- 
quencers than there are word processors. 
The top three contenders are Mark of the 
Unicorn s Performer, Passport Design s 
Master h'acksPro, and Southworth .Music 
System.s MIDI Paint. Opcode Systems 
Sequencer was one of the first Mac se- 
quencers, and while it has evolved into a 
powerful program over the years, it lacks 
the fine individual-note editing capabilities 
of its competitors. Unlike the other se- 
quencers mentioned, which store one se- 
quence per file, Sequencer lets you store 
up to 26 sequences per file and then create 
a master sequence that plays the others to 
create a complete song. 

And there are more sequencers on 
the way. At this writing, Sonus Corporation 
w’as putting the final touches on its pro- 
oriented A/as/erP/ece, W'hich, like 
Sequencer, lets you combine separate 
sequences into a song. Lastly, Southworth 
Music Systems recently announced One 
Step, a $69 sequencer with much of MIDI 
Paints pow'er, but designed for the 
newx'omer. 

Because the sequencers I just men- 
tioned are all capable programs, it s best to 
audition them to find the one you’re most 
comfortable with. One area to assess is the 
way each program lets you edit sequences. 
Performer takes a numeric approach that 
allows great precision but can be hard to 
use, while MIDI Paint and Master Dncks 
Pro both provide a visual editing window 
that shows notes on a proportional grid. 
You move or alter notes by dragging them, 
and you click on a note to display a Per- 
former-Wke numeric editing window: 
Masterpiece offers both approaches in 
one window. 

If you’re interested in exchanging files 
with other sequencers, make sure your 
equipment supports the new^4//D/ /7/e for- 
mat. At this writing, the MIDI file format 
was close to being officially adopted by the 
MIDI Manufacturers Association. In the 

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Sampling Sound 



You’re already familiar with one 
form of sampling: the motion 
picture. By taking 24 separate 
photographs every second, a 
movie camera obtains a sam- 
pling of the continuously- 
changing (analog) action in 
front of it. A projector then 
shows the samples at the same 
speed, and your eye and brain 
fill in the gaps, giving the illu- 
sion of continuous motion. 

Sound sampling works sim- 
ilarly. By taking periodic “pic- 
tures” of a sound wave as a 
sound is produced, a computer 
obtains a set of numbers that 
represents the sound wave’s 
shape. Each picture, ov sample, 
is a numeric snapshot showing 
the sound’s amplitude when 
the sample was taken. The 
computer then recreates the 
sound by supplying the num- 
bers to a circuit called a digital- 
to analog converter, w-hich 
generates waveforms that 
closely resemble the original. 

Sound is more difficult to 
sample than visual action be- 
cause of the speed with which 
sound waves vibrate. The mid- 
dle C on a piano produces a 
sound wave that repeats 261 
times every second, while the 
highest C produces a 4186-cy- 
cle-per-second waveform. To 
accurately render sound within 
ihe audible range, which ex- 
tends up to approximately 
20,000 cycles per second, thou- 
sands of samples must be taken 
every second. The faster the 
sampling rate, the more accu- 
rate the picture of the original 
sound becomes. Digital audio 
equipment takes 44,100 sam- 
ples every second. Because the 
Mac Plus and SE must also 
spend time managing memory, 
creating screen displays, and 



handling other chores, they're 
limited to roughly 22,000 .sam- 
ples per second-not swift 
enough to earn a place in your 
stereo system, but fast enough 
to sound at least as good as an 
inexpensive table radio. 

Another factor that influ- 
ences sound quality is the sam- 
pling resolution-ihe ability of 
the computer to recognize 
changes in loudness of the 
sound being sampled. Compact 
disk equipment uses 14-bit sam- 
pling, meaning it’s able to rec- 
ognize and reproduce 16,000 
different loudness levels-more 
than the human ear can dis- 
cern. The Macintosh uses 8-bit 
sampling and is able to recog- 
nize only 255 dynamic levels. 
When the dynamic level of a 
sample lies between two 
points, tlie Mac rounds it off to 
the nearest level. This approx- 
imation results in sampling 
eriXM-s that you hear as noise. 

The Mac II can sample at 
44,100 samples per second but, 
like other Macs, it uses only 8 
bits of re.solution. Other im- 
proN'ements in the Mac II's 
audio circuitry give it better 
sou nd- reproduc t ion capabi 1 i- 
ties than the Plus and the SE 
have, but don't expect to see 
any wine goblets shatter in 
front of Mac II speakers. 

The Mac II’s real potential 
in sound sampling lies in its 
speed and expandability. Eor 
example, Soiithworth Music 
Systems is developing a 24- 
bii .sound sampling board 
equipped with a high-speed 
signal processing micropro- 
ce,s.sor. Forthcoming boards 
will turn the Mac II into a 
professional-quality digital 
recorder. 



meantime, this format is gaining momen- 
tum as an unofficial standard in the Mac 
sequencer field. 

Smart Songsters 

I could talk about sequencers until I 
run into ihe Mactvorki Best-Sellers page, 
but I w'ouldn't be doing justice to another 
fascinating category of music software: in- 
telligent instrument programs. These soft- 
ware collaborators store and analyze 
phrases and then improvise music with 
some characteristics of the originals. 

Musical Luddites who aim their noses 
skwxird at the notion of computer-com- 
posed music haven’t played v^iih Jam Fac- 
tory, one of three intelligent instrument 
pmgrams from Intelligent Music. Iny^;;? 
Factory, four “players” store notes you play 
at a MIDI keyboard, and then the program 
analyzes the music. From there, the pro- 
gram generates new passages that contain 
the notes you played, but in a more random 
order. The order isn't completely random, 
however, because the probability of a given 
note occurring depends on how often it 
occurred in the original phrase. That’s 
what allowsya;?? Factory's improvisations 
to resemble the original phrases. 

The basic concepts behind./r/;;? Fac- 
tory aren't new. In 1961, computer music 
.scientists developed vvluii ilie)^ called an 
analog composing machine. In one experi- 
ment, they used it to analyze Stephen Fos- 
ter songs and compose new songs that had 
that Dixie flavor. And even Mozart once ex- 
perimented with random composition, 
using dice to choose notes, then building a 
melody and supporting harmony based on 
those .selections. 

Jam Factory would make the flamboy- 
ant Amadeus squeal with glee. The .screen 
is jam-packed with performance controls, 
buttons, and graphs for altering the 
phrases Factory plays-iheir tempo, 
rhythm, randomness, key signature, and 
\nove. Jam Factory turns the Mac into a 
musical instrument, letting you change the 
program’s renditions of your phrases by 
"playing” the on-screen controls. M)u can 
store the results of a performance, com- 
mit that flash of brilliance to disk, and 
replay it later. 

If it .sounds to you like there’s more to 
Jam Factory than I've described, you’re 

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296 November 1987 



It’s one thing to have great 
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Insights on Quark XPress 

Text, font, and page-layout tips to make the life of the 
electronic publisher a little easier 



by Valerie Kuletz 



In the beginning there was PageMaker, a 
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siderable skill and knowledge of design, 
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and tracking (global kerning). XPress also 
offers color separation; the ability to wrap 
text around arbitrary shapes; and batch 
pagination, which allows you to format 
long manuscripts by simply placing the first 
column. 

Many o(XPress*s features imply flex- 
ibility and versatility. However, they can 
confuse both beginners and seasoned 
desktop publishers. For example, flowing 
text through columns and jumping across 
pages is a great feature, but too often “con- 
tinued on page 10“ bears no resemblance 
to reality. Since few of us are expert users 
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tips that should make life with XPress a 
little easier. 

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and testing XPress. I would also like to 
ih'dnk XPress users Ed Nies,Joel Leipzig, 
and Jim Morton for their research 
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Text Tips 

XPresss text handling lends a great 
deal of typographic control, but you have 
to kno\\- how' to use it. These tips help \ou 
save time and avoid frustration when 
you're working with the rich assortment of 
text tools. 

Hyphenation 

XPress's automatic h\ phenation pro- 
\ides two wa\\s to suppress h\’phenation of 
a particular word. To prevent hyphenation 
of all occurrences, add the word to the Hy- 
phenation Exceptions list. Don’t hyphenate 
words on the exception list: enterproam- 
tijiate rather than prO’Cras-fin-afe. To 
avoid hyphenating a single occurrence of a 
word, place the in.sertion point just before 
the word and press §§-hyphen. 

Large Type with Small 

Once upon a medieval time, monks 
labored in .solitude to produce stunning il- 
luminated letters at the beginning of a pas- 
sage. The drop caps that designers use 
today usually come read>'-made from a 
type font, but positioning them in Xpress 
still requires .some effort. 

lb control the amount of space be- 
tween the large type and surrounding text, 
use tliree boxes instead of just one for the 
drop cap and one for the smaller text. First 
position the drop caj") and make its box 
transparent so the text flows around the 
letter. If the text hugs the large type too 
closely, create a third (nontransparent) text 
block for the drop cap, slighth^ larger than 
its original box, to act as a placeholder. Res- 
ize this buffer box (by its handles) to adjust 
the spacing. 

Creating Headlines 

Suppose you want to align a single- 
column headline with the text in the ad- 
joining column. If you type the headline 
into the body-text block and change its font 
size, you may throw off the horizontal 
alignment. So when placing headlines on 
multicolumned pages, create a separate 
text box to hold the headline text. Then, af- 
ter you flow your body text into the col- 
umns, resize the headline box to force the 
text to reflow until it’s aligned. Keep adju.st- 
ing the position of the headline box until 
the baseline across columns is even (see 
“Matching I leadlines to Text’’). 



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Importing 

XPress 1.03 can’t read Microsoft Word 
3.0 files directly; you must convert them 
into ASCII text or Word 1.05 format before 
importing. (Quark expects the next v^er- 
sion o{ XPress to be compatible with 
Wordi.Q,) 

Speed-Selecting 

Don’t forget thatXPre^x lets you triple- 
click to select a line, quadruple-click to se- 
lect a paragraph, and quintuple-click to 
select all the text in a chain. 

Text Wraparound 

The Text Outset command for picture 
boxes lets you specify the amount of while 
space between a graphic box and the text 
that flows around it. But there’s a hitch: you 
must use the rectangular-box tool, not the 
rounded-corner one, if you want to adjust 
the white space. 

Linking 

After you finish with the text-linking 
tool, be sure to deselect it by switching to 
another t(3ol; otherwise one misplaced 
mouse click could wreak havoc on the 
structure of your document. 





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Use a separate text box 
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the text area of a two- 
column layout. Then 
you can adjust the size 
of the headline box to 
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til the adjacent col- 
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matched. 



Page Layout and Graphic Design 

Page-layout possibilities seem endless, 
but so do the complications. A few tips can 
take some of the guesswork out of your 
page makeup. 

Column and Graphic Combos 

Multicolumn layouts present particu- 
lar problems. For example, if you’ve set up 
a three-column grid for your text, how do 
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middle of page 5? If you position them 



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columns and position it where you want 
the graphics inserted. With the Modify 
command, change the number of columns 
to two. Then draw’ tw^o graphics boxes in 
the new^ text block and load the art files 
as usual. 

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To accurately position text and graph- 
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move the ruler s zero point to correspond 
to either the box’s horizontal or vertical 
alignment. That makes it easy to align addi- 
tional boxes by selecting Modify from the 
Item menu. You don’t have to use the zero 
point, but if you don’t, you must write 
down or remember the coordinates. 



Marginalia 

Suppose you want to create a multi- 
column manual with the left column re- 
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when all text beneath them is in- 
dented), thumbnail drawings such as icons, 
and special notes to readers. It’s a familiar 
Mac manual design, but it takes an extra 
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text they belong with, heavy editing, in.ser- 
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significant change will force you to reposi- 
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leave subheadings and notes destined for 
the left column within the main body of 
text until the end of the editing process. 

Makeshift Style Guides 

XPress lacks style guides, but you can 
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paragraphs (as short as a single word or 
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Making Style Guides 

If you make your oivn 
style guide, you can 
copy paragraph and 
character formats 
from your own library 
of styles, without tak- 
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on the desktop. 



For example, here’s how you would 
enter a title in your document with a for- 
mat we’ll call Style 1. Copy a sample (even 
a single character wall do) from Style 1 into 
your document as a new' paragraph, and 
then start typing. (If you paste the Style 1 
selection into an existing paragraph, it 
merely conforms to the existing format.) To 
change the format of type already entered 
in the document, use the Copy Format 
technique: click in the paragraph you w'ant 
to alter, move the I-beam pointer to the de- 
sired format, and press Option-Shift-click. 

To control the formats for entire 
pages, set up master pages as detailed in 
the XPress manual under “Designing and 
Using Default Pages,” chapter 2, page 40. 

Moving Graphics Blocks 

Because XPress doesn’t let you copy 
boxes between pages, you have to jump 
through a few' hoops to move a picture 
from one page to another. Start by select- 
ing the box with the graphic you w'ant to 
move and press ^-M to display the box’s 
specifications. Write dow'n the specs. Go to 
the new' page and create a graphics box of 
any size. Press i€-M again and type in the 
numbers you recorded to replicate the old 
box’s size, location, and scaling. Finally, 
paste in the graphic itself 

Production 

Even the best of all possible docu- 
ments isn't complete until it has been 
printed. The follow'ing tips can help you 
avoid snafus on your w'ay to the finished 
product, especially if you’re using a high- 
end Linotronic 100 or Linotronic 300 to 
produce printing masters. 



Color Separations 

XPress was one of the first Mac pro- 
grams to allow you to separate and print 
color overlays automatically. If you design a 
new'sletter with green borders around 
black type, XPress can print the borders on 
one sheet and the type on another. The 
program can also add registration marks to 
each page to allow the printer to align the 
colors proj^eiiy. But be careful. W'hen the 
Registration Marks box in the print dialog 
box is checked, the image automatically 
shifts ‘V^ inch dow'ii and to the right. On a 
page that is 8 by 10 inches or less, that isn’t 
a problem. But if you’re using a LaserWriter 
for standard 8V2- by IJ-inch pages, it means 
that any image w'ithin 1 inch of the right- 
hand or bottom edge of the page will not 
print. With Linotronic typesetting equip- 
ment, or other equipment w'ith sheets 
larger than 8V2 by II inches, turning on 
Registration Marks poses no problems. 

Avoiding Improper Spacing 

Sometimes, despite all your fine- 
tuning, the output from very high resolu- 
tion printers (such as the Lintronic 100 and 
300 typesetting machines) does not match 
w'hat you see on the Macintosh screen. This 
can be a big headache because it usually 
turns up at the last possible moment. 

Here’s one w'ay to avoid unexpected line 
breaks and w'ord spacing in Linotronic gal- 
leys: edit text only mXPress's actual size, 
not in reduced or enlarged view's. (This 
should not be a problem with the Laser- 
Writer or the ImageWriter.) 

Fonts for the Linotronic 

Experienced desktop publishers have 
learned the hard w'ay to stick w'ith know'n 
fonts for Linotronic output. Some swear by 
Adobe’s fonts for reliable accuracy in lead- 



ing, kerning, and character-w'idth values. 
They’ll try an appealing font from another 
publisher only if they’ve heard from reli- 
able sources that the typeface reproduces 
accurately on the Linotronic 100 and 300. 
Because the resolution is so much higher 
on these typesetters, slight inaccuracies in 
a font’s character-width tables can cause an 
extra line w'rap (not apparent on screen or 
in ImageWriter or LaserWriter proofs) that 
could disrupt an entire layout. When using 
unfamiliar fonts, alw’ays test them thor- 
oughly on the Linotronic well ahead of 
your deadline. Be especially careful if 
you’re using fonts with very thin strokes in 
the characters; they may virtually disap- 
pear in the Linotronic version. 

Incompatible Fonts 

More and more typesetting and copy 
shops are beginning to offer Linotronic ser- 
vices. However, just because an establish- 
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to use it. This is particularly true with any 
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files for each font in your document. Take 
this disk with you and boot up the typeset- 
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the Apple menu) and select the correct 
output device. Finally, run open 

your document, and print it. 

Gray Scales 

Here’s a hint about using the Shade 
feature for blocks and borders. The gray 
scales (darkness of shading) differ for each 
type of printer-LaserWriter, ImageWriter, 
Linotronic, and so on-because the dot size 
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A consumer's guide to fans for preventing Mac burnout 



by Barbara J. Chan and Gordon Haig 




Most personal computers have an internal 
fan. hut the original Macintosh and Mac- 
intosh Plus do not. because they were de- 
signed to usurp little desk space and to 
he quiet. 

So why does any Macintosh user need 
a fan? Computers operate on electricity, 
electricity generates heat, and heat deterio- 
rates electronic components. Insulators 
dry out, crack, or crumble and semicon- 
ductor components age. The Mac has two 
circuit boards: an analog (or power) board, 
which drives both the computer and the 
video screen; and a system (or logic) 
board, which is the brain and memory 
bank. The analog board is the hottest part 
and is the most likely to fail through pro- 
longed use. We’ve seen Macs go up in 
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side, while the pin solder cracked and 
spread exit across the board. Aj')ple could 
have made the components mote heat- 
resistant by making the conductors bigger 
and .spacing them further apari-but then 
the Mac would have been bigger, slower, 
heavier, and more costly. 

While researching this article we 
que.stioned independent technicians who 
tii.sa.ssemble and analyze failed hoards. (We 
tried peoj^le at Apple, but no one would go 
on record. ) According to Loy .Spurlock, 
president of Computer Quick in La Mirada, 
California, between 60 and 75 percent of 
the Macs brought in for repair have prob- 
lems with the analog board. Chuck Ru.sch 
of Iiugene, Oregon, writes in MacDuor 
that 100 percent of the Macs two years old 
or older that he has examined had visibly 
cracked joints on the analog board. He says 
the damage results from the strain of re- 
peated expansion and contraction on the 
.solder. Computer Quick s records indicate 
iliai in the summer, when the average high 
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percent, thereby prolonging the life of 
the .Macintosh. 

Dancing the Fandango 

Cooling systems offer a variety of ex- 
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pressor or a special tool for installation and 

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cooling system capa- 
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ulary makes you lean forward in 
your chair to keep up with him. If 
anyone could get by without a 
thesaurus, he could. But we have 
his letter praising our comprehen- 
sive, contemporary Word Finder. 
No big words, just a nice letter 
saying how much he liked it and 
uses it. Didn’t mention the 220,000 
synonyms for 15,000 words. Didn’t 
say anything about how in just 
seconds Word Finder performs the 
whole cycle of look-up and replace- 
ment, so you continue writing 



without taking your eyes off the 
screen or your fingers off the 
keyboard. Nothing about how 
simple it is— just select the 
word you want an alternate for, 
and up pops a window of syn- 
onyms. Pick a new word and 
the window disappears, and your 
new word takes the place of the old 
word. But he did say; “It’s a bloody 
miracle. Word Finder has changed 
my life. I never used to use a 
thesaurus.” * To order call 
800-828-6293 (in New York State 
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Word Finder installs as a desk 
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removal (see “Cooling Tools"). 

We tested live systems. The Fanny Mac 
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handle. The System Saver Mac protrudes 
2 inches above the Macintosh handle. The 
Mac’N'Frost covers the entire top, including 



the vents. The fanless MacChimney convec- 
tion device sits on top of the Macintosh like 
the Tin Mans hat. 

The fans are all rotary or propeller 
types. (The MaxChill piezoelectric fan had 
been discontinued at press time. ) The Mac- 
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9-Track tape, a mainframe standard, is the most tvliuhh hnekup maliutn 
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Our exclusive QUTAPE software is supplied on a standard 3‘ 2 inch 
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Cooling Compared 

This bar chart shows how much each cooling de- fan, the Mac's power hoard at eraged 130.2 de^ 

vice lowered the average temperature of a Mac's grees Fahrenheit, while room temperature aver- 

power (analog) and system hoards. Without a aged 75 degrees. 




Silicon Comforts MacCbimney 



chip. The average temperatures were 130.2 
and 87.7 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively, 
with an average room temperature of 
75 degrees. 

We then tested the five cooling sys- 
tems on this same Macintosh over a six- 
month period; the results appear in “Cool- 
ing Compared.” The temperature at the an- 
alog board peaked at 55 degrees above 
room temperature and at 12.7 degrees 
above room temperature at the system 
board. 

All five systems were effective; they 
managed to reduce the temperature at 
each location by an average of 22 degrees. 
The Mac’NTrost was the most effective, 
though, reducing the analog-board tem- 

(continues) 



materials: beige steel or plastic, or glossy 
platinum cardboard. 

Playing Fantan 

We tested a 512K Macintosh, which 
was enhanced with the new ROM. The Mac 
we used has a SuperMac SCSI board in- 
stalled on the system board and a newer 
Mac Plus-type analog board. To establish a 
point of comparison, we measured the 
temperature of this Macintosh without any 
additional cooling devices. We measured 
the inside temperature using two thermo- 
couple probes; we put one above and in 
front of the flyback transformer at the top 
of the analog board and the other above 
the system board to the right of the 68000 







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• Dedicate or share Macintosh hard disk for DOS application 

• Work in the multiprocessing environments of cither “Switcher” or Multifinder 

• Use Apple Imagcwriter/laser printers or IBM® compatible letter quality 
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perature by 37 degrees. In spile of its small 
fan, the Mac’N’Frost’s large-surface design 
allows it to pull air from all of the top 
vents. The MacChimney, with its unconven- 
tional design, cools almost as effectively as 
the rotary fans. 

In addition to cooling effectiveness, 
we also noted relative noise levels, compar- 
ing the fans to each other and to a Data- 
Frame 20 hard disk, a MacBottom 20, and a 
LaserWriter Plus. Our noise ratings are 
based on our personal judgment rather 
than measurements. Of course, the un- 
powered MacChimney wa.s the quietest. 
The System Saver Mac is the quietest rotary 
fan. The .Mac’NTrost is about as loud as a 
DataFrame 20; the MacFan is comparable 
to a LaserWriter; and the Fanny Mac is the 
noisiest of them all. 

Some people worry that the extra air a 
fan pulls in will bring with it another unde- 
sirable side effect: dust. While dust is no 
better for Mac components than heat is, we 
think the cooling benefits outweigh a little 
extra dust. Besides, if your Mac must stay in 
an especially dusty location, you could al- 
ways point a vacuum cleaner nozzle at the 
emj:)ty disk drive slot to clear out some of 
the buildup-while the Mac is turned off, 
of course. 

Firing up a Macintosh with hard disk, 
modem, and printer almost requires a 
command center, but three of the fans al- 
low you to streamline the process. The 
MacLan, Mac’N’Frost, and System Saver Mac 
each have two surge-protected outlets to 
which peripherals can be attached. The 
MacFan has a single switch on top that con- 
trols the fan, the Mac, and one of its out- 
lets; the other outlet is always live. The 
.Mac’N ’Frost and System Saver .Mac each 
have a second switch that independently 
controls the other outlet-so you can start 
your hard disk before you turn on the Mac, 
ian, modem, or printer. 

Which One Is Fantastic? 

If you’re working at home in a ciuiet 
room, consider the MacChimney. It's 
cheap, silent, and it works. 

For those on the go, only Fanny Mac 
and MacFan are worth considering. The\' 
can remain in the Macintosh handle and 
pack neatly into your carrying case. 

For people operating a Macintosh 
with hard disk and printer in an office or 
some other noisy environment, we recom- 
mend the Mac’N’Frost because it is the 
coolest, it has a full control center, and it is 
easy to install. □ 

See Where to Buy for product details. 





How your Mac family 
and your 3270 family can be 
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Your Macintoshes and your main- 
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amazing capabilities. Except 
for one: the ability to easily talk 
to one another. 

But there is a universal solu- 
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— the 512 KE, the Plus, the SE, 



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Since we connect to Apple- 
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But that’s not all. 
With our file transfer 
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exchange text, Mac 
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binary files, and even 
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And with our Switcher 
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Mac applications. Without dis- 
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Given all these capabilities, 
you may think NETWjff lOOOA 
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you’re in for a pleasant surprise. 
For a workgroup of 16 Macs, 
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Fast, Fit & Forty 






Tecmar Introduces 
QT-Mac40 — the \ery Fast, 
Yery Small, 40MB Tape Backup 

for Macintosh. 



It’s up to twice as fast as many 
tape drives. It's so small it fits 
on your desk, or in 
your briefcase. And it stores a 
big 40 megabytes of data on 
a single, mini tape cartridge. 
It’s the QT-iVlac40! And it’s only from Tecmar, a world leader 
in tape backup for personal computers, with more than 70,000 
satished customers. 



• User-friendly, icon- 
interface software 

• SCSI interface for speed 
and compatibility 

• Compatible with all 
internal and external 
hard disks for the 
Macintosh 

• Background backup 
operation— allows use of 
Mac while backup is 
being performed 

• Automatic, unattended 
operation— for periodic 
backup of entire disk or 
just- modified files 

• Backup modes— mirror 
image, file-by-file and 
desktop 

• Data encryption- 
ensures security of 
sensitive information 

• Apple Tape Backup 
40SQ^ AppleShare^ 
and A/u5c^ compatible 



QfT-Mac40. Standalone tape backup for the Macintosh 



Tecmar products available under CSA Sckedule. QT-MacAO, Qualit)frapc and QuiekTUrn trademarks of Tecmar. [nc.: 
Macintosh trademark of McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., licensed to Apple Computer. Inc.: Tape Backup 40SC. AppleShare 
and A/UX trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. 

©Copyright Tecmar. Inc., a subsidiary ol Rexon, Inc.. 1987 All rights reserved. 



You Need QT-Mac40...if you keep important data on a 
hard disk. Work in progress should be backed up periodically— 
daily or weekly. At up to 3MB/minute-backup speed it won’t 
take long. And, if you’re too busy, QT-Mac40 can back up by 
itself automatically and unattended. 

You Need QT-Mac40...if you could use extra room on 
your hard disk. Seldom accessed files can be archived onto 
tape and shelved, giving you room to grow. And with 
QT'Mac40’s unique Tape Library' System you can quickly 
find the location of any archived file 
without installing a single tape. 

You Need QT-Mac40...if you 
would like to share large amounts 
of data. A single, inexpensive 
Tecmar QualityTape™ Mini- 
Cartridge easily fits into a shirt 
pocket or overnight-mail pouch. 

And QIC- 100 compatibility assures 
tape interchangeability between drives. 

Guaranteed Quality. QT-Mac40’s two-year warranty 
includes Teemar’s exclusive QuickTurn^'* Quality Service. It 
guarantees that if you have any trouble with your QT-Mac40 
in the first six months of operation, Tecmar will send a 
replacement within 48 hours. That’s made-in-the-U.S.A. 
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For more information on QT-Mac40 call (216) 349-1009. 

Or write Tecmar, Inc., 6225 Cochran Road, Solon, Ohio 
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updates 



Store & 
retrieve 



Highlights of software updates re- 
cently received but not yet tested. 
The first price is the upgrade cost 
for registered owners; the second 
is the list price. 

Family Roots version 1.2B prints 
charts, allows selective text styl- 
ing, and supports hard disks. 
Quinsept, Inc., P.O. Box 216, Lex- 
ington, MA 02173, 617/641-2930. 
$22.50; $72.50 new. 

Fluent Fonts version 2.0 includes 18 
new typefaces and more sizes 
within families. Kerning pairs 
have been added to some fonts. 
CasadyWare, P.O. Box 223779, Car- 
mel, CA 93922, 408/646-4660. Free 
to those who purchased after 
April 15, 1987; otherwise $12; 
$49.95 new 

Idealiner version 2.3 fixes problems 
with zoom windows. Lets you 
view section numbers, customize 
outline numbering, and preview^ 
outlines before printing. Also in- 
cludes selective text styling. Jimmy 
Mac Software, P.O. Box 957, Mur- 
freesboro, TN 37133, 615/895- 
6427. Free; $40 new 

MaclnUse version 2.0 is compatible 
with AppleShare, TOPS, Mac- 
Serve, and other network prod- 
ucts. Design Form feature lets you 
cu.stomize screens for soliciting 
information. An F-key records in- 
formation to the data file from 
within an application. Tracks ap- 
plication usage \xv\l\qv Switcher. 
Sofiview, Inc., 4820 Adohr Ln., 

Ste. F, Camarillo, CA 93010, 
805/388-2626. 



Spellswell version 2.0A is compatible 
with Word 3.01 and Symmetry’s 
Acta. Includes guess feature, ex- 
panded proofreading capabilities, 
transfer function, and improved 
user interface. Working Software, 
321 Alvarado St., Ste. H, Monterev, 
CA 93940, 408/375-2828, 800/331- 
4321; 800/851-1986 in California. 
Free with disk and receipt if pur- 
chased after June 1, 1987; other- 
wise, $18.50; $74.95 new. 

TimeMinder version 1.4 is compati- 
ble with Switcher. Allows you to 
halt time tracking for interrup- 
tions. Aatrix Software, 405 Bruce 
Ave., Grand Forks, ND 58201, 
701/746-7202. Free; $139.95 new^. 

TOPS for the Macintosh version 
3.18.87 includes a LaserWriter 
spooler and a data translation ap- 
plication. Centram, 2560 Ninth St. 
#220, Berkeley, CA 94710, 415/ 
549-5900. Free if purchased after 
June 1, 1987; otherwise $29; 

$189 new*. 

World Builder version 1.1 is compati- 
ble with Soundwave from Im- 
pulse. Fixes a serious bug in 
previous version. Silicon Beach 
Softw'are, 9580 Black Mountain 
Rd., Ste. E, P.O. Box 261430, San 
Diego, CA 92126, 619/695-6956. 
Free; $79.95 new- □ 

To have products listed in this section, 
send upgraded softivare, an outline 
of major changes since the previous 
release, upgrade price, suggested re- 
tail price, company name, mailing 
address, and phone number to Up- 
dates, Macworld, 501 Second St., San 
Francisco, CA 94107. 



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The Macworld Directory is a com- 
prehensive listing, hy category, of 
products and services available for 
the Apple Macintosh. It provides ad- 
vertisers with a low-cost advertising 
alternative and our readers with 
an easy reference guide. 

FORMAT: The standard format 
includes a product ID, a 300- 
character descriptive ad, and a 
company name, address, and tele- 
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Adifertisers may choose among cat- 
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create their own. Display adver- 
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RATES: LLstings are accepted for a 
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insertion at $1450 that reflects a 
15% frequency discount. Listings 
must be prepaid (except for estab- 
lished display advertisers) upon 
subm ission of ad copy. Checks, 
money orders, Visa, and Master- 
Card are accepted. 

DEADLINE: For copy deadlines and 
further information please contact 
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tory Account Manager, at 
415/546-7722 or 800/435-7766 
(800/435-7760 in California). 
Please send copy and prepayment 
to the Macworld Directoty, 501 Sec- 
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Attractive red vinyl-covered steel Vie” 
cables. Lock included. No tools req. 
$-back guarantee. Also, IBM, Apple, 
etc. $40. Mac Cables provide any 
length custom cables for Mac/-f 
(incl. keyboard) or almost any com- 
puter need. 120 ik up. 

Mac Products, 20231 San Gabriel 
Valley Dr, Walnut, CA 91789, 
714/595-4838 

O Hardware 

MACOPENER™ 

The finest one-piece tool to open the 
Macintosh case. Do your own up- 
grades. installations, adjustments, 
and repairs. No moving parts. One 
year warranty, parts and workman- 
ship. Suggested list $19.95 + $3 
shipping and handling. Dealer inqui- 
ries welcome. 

Central Products Corp., 2211 Nor- 
folk 41518, Houston, 'TX 77098, 
713/529-1080 



Keypad/Trackball 

The Numeric Ease: Upgrade vour 
512K/I28K w/a 22 station, full scale, 
full function numeric keypad. In- 
cludes cursor keys direct function 
keys, such as -f, — , x, -f , it =. List: 
$59. The Numeric Tlirbo: A inick ball 
cursor controller combined w/nu- 
meric Eiise. List: $169. Dealer inquir- 
ies welcome. 

Cambridge Automation, Inc., 
20230 State Rd., Cenitos, CA 
90701, Orders/Info: 800/345-8666 
or 800/826-9214 in CA. 

Q Mouse 

RealClean /MouseEase '*■ 

New! RealClean mouse cleaning kit 
gets grime off internal rollers. Spe- 
cial tool advances and scrubs rollers. 
Includes tweezers & cleaning solu- 
tion. $14.95 + $2 s/h. For all Apple 
mice. From the makers of 
MouseEase, teflon paws for 51 2K/ 
Plus Apple mice. $2.95 .50 s/h. CA 

res. add sales tax. Send check to: 
Tacklind Design, 250 CowperSt., 
Palo Alto, CA 94301, 415/322-2257 

O Supplies 

LaserWriter Toner Recharge 

Don’t throw out empty toner car- 
tridges. Sell them to us. Cartridge 
16.50, cleaner $3, & box + packing 
$.50. • PRINTERS: Apple LaserWriter. 
HP & more • COPIERS: Canon PC 
models • BLA' OUR RECI h\RGED 
CARTRIDGES $50, Blu/Brn $70. We 
supply empty cartridge Si felt cleaner. 
QC test sheet provided. Support 
available. 

Michlin Computer Consultants, 

Inc., Laser Cartridge Division, 

3770 Plaza Dr. 441, Ann Arbor, MI 
48108, 313/663’9800 

Laser Cartridge Recharge! 

$$$Save a lot of money recharging 
laser-printer toner cartridges for 
I'lewlett-Packard LaserJets, Canon, 
Apple LaserWriter, Corona, QMS. Re- 
charged cartridges are reconditioned 
to work like new but last 20% longer. 
Money-back guarantee. Send $40 per 
cartridge plus $3 s/h. .Monthly dis- 
counts. 

Toner Technologies/ Laser Systems, 7 
North Main, P.O. Box 407, Kaysville, 
LIT 84037, 801/544-3090 



Diskettes/Fire Protection 

Sony 3 V 2 ” diskettes: single- sided 
$ 1.53 each, double-sided $1.93. Un- 
hranded, unboxed, unlabeled. Any 
quantity, no minimum order. LalDcls 
ea. I lalon fire extinguisher-small 
desktop size (18 oz.), cla.ss 1B:C, 
won't harm computer equipment, 
$21.95. Vi.sa/MC/check/MO. Add 
2 .s/h. 

Casablanca Software, P.O. Box 214, 
Dept. AA, Hicksville, OH 43526, 
419/S42-8145 

Recharge Dealerships!! 

Hot New Field!! Join our network Sc 
make money now. TVain at our loca- 
tion. High profit, low overhead. Es- 
tablished company (over 500 retail 
accounts). Learn it right-no drill Si 
fill! Factory'- like recharge method, 
LONG LIFE’S for only $59. Receive 
tools, supplies, trade secrets, mar- 
keting strategy & technical support. 
Free call for information. 

Laser Charge Co., 11782 Jolly- 
ville Rd., Austin, TX 78759, ’ 
800/223-8134 or in TX call collect 
512/335-8191 



■ Advertising 

O Novelties/Premiums 



Create a You-nique'^ Gift 

YOUR logo or artwork on our gifts 



• COFFEE MUG $12.50/6.90* 

• MOUSE PAD $ 1 2.50/7.90* 

• T-SHIRT $12.50/5.90- 

• CHOCOLATE $ 1 0.50/6.90* 

• SWEATSHIRT $17.50/10.90* 

• TIUAVEL BAG $24.50/ 1 5.90* 

• AWARD PLAQUE $24.50/1 7.90* 

*72+ price. $3.60 for 144 mugs. 
Quantity pricing available for larger 
orders. FREE catalog! 

Computer Exixressions, 3833 Chest- 
nut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, 



215/222-4400 



322 November 1987 



O Mailing Lists 

Macintosh Mailing Lists 

Maclniosh user names & addresses 
on adhesive lalx^ls or as Mac files on 
diskettes. Over 120.000 names to 
choose from. Only 5c per name for 
one-time rental. No charge for select- 
ing, sorting, key coding, media, or 
delivery. Chocxse any quantity. This 
extremely high-quality list is updated 
daily. Ask for our one-time rental 
agreement before sending payment. 
Semaphore Corp. 207 Gramula Dk, 
Aptos, CA 95003, 408/688-9200 



■ Consulting 

Custom Developer 

.Specializing in integrated systems for 
legal, medical, sales & corporate 
mgmt. communities. Macros, tem- 
plates, custom applications devel- 
oped using Omnis 3 -t-r Document 
.Modeler/'* Project Modeler,^” Red 
Ryder,”* Excel, & Tfempo.’“ Nation- 
wide service through our 24 hr. BBS. 
Fixed price, T&E, or hourly contract 
negotiable. 

Phoenix Support Systems, 3232 San 
Mateo Nf: ^199, Albuquerque, NM 
87110. 305/765-9666 

O Computer Insurance 

Safeware 

Insure your computer. .Safeware pro- 
vides full replacement of hardware, 
media, and purcha.sed .software. As 
little as $39 a year provides compre- 
hensive coverage. With our blanket 
coverage, no lists of equipment are 
needed. One phone call does it all! 
Citll 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. EST (Sat. 9 to 5). 
Safeware, The Insurance Agency 
Inc., 2929 A* High St., P.O. Box ’ 
02211, Columbus, OH 43202, 
800/848-3469 (national), 
614/262-0359 in Ohio 

■ Hardware 

O l^ar Code 

Bar Code/Mag Card Readers 

Bar code mag .stripe ( credit card ) 
readers for all Macintosh computers, 
easily connected on the keylxiard 
circuit, requiring no additional pro- 
gram or port; simple but powerful 



code-39 bar-code printing program 
for ImageWriter & LaserWriter; mag- 
netic encoder/verifier. GSA pricing 
a\^il. 

TPS Electronics, 4047 Transport St., 
Palo Alto, CA 94303, 415/856-6833 

O Hard Disk/SCSI 

YOUR MAC SOURCE 

Dataframe 30, 60MB SCSI hard disk 
drive. For all your Mac needs from 
hard disk drives, .software, periph- 
erals, Mac cases, books, networking 
and consulting. Desktop publishing 
typesetting and graphic design. Man- 
uals, catalogs, new'sletters, <& bro- 
chures. Call us today! 

Your Mac Source, 3600 Rosivell 
Prodo North, it 264, Atlanta, GA 
30342, 404/843’2267, 
800/367-7552 

O Lisa/Mac XL 

MACsimize your Lisa/XL 

Dafax provides full service & sup- 
port for your LLsii/Mac XL. We carr>' a 
full line of upgrades, replacement 
parts &. peripherals, including HFS, 
20MB replacement hard disks for all 
Lisas &XLs, RAM upgrades & more. 
For latest new product information 
call our toll-free hotline 
800/782-7823. 

Dafax Processing Corp., 14 North 
Drive, Malha, NY 11357, 800/323- 
1751 (orders & info.), 

215/574-0357 (PA) 

O Memory Upgrade 

Memory Enhancements 

upgrade your .Mac to 51 2 K, 1024K, or 
2048K of contiguous memory. SCSI 
port &. fans available. Factory flow- 
solder techniques used fc^r high relia- 
bility. 120-day warranty. Local 20- 
minute installation or mail order. 
Dealer inquiries welcome. Call for 
pricing and information. 

Ehman Engineering, 115 Apache 
Dr, Evanston, WY 82930, 
800/257-1666 



SIMM MODULES 

• Bring your PLUS, SE Mac II up to 
max memory. These SIMMS utilize 
surface mt. technology as chosen by 
Apple. 

• Specs: IM DRAMS are 120NS, 

C. MOS components .selected for cool- 
er operation & greater reliability. 

• also available 256K SIMMS & 
video 1U\M upgrades. 

• .All products unconditionally 
guaranteed. 

• All inquiries welcome 

CDC Enterprise, 2883 E. LaPalma, 
Anaheim, CA 92806, 

714/630-4633 

ONE MEGABYTE SIMMS 

Upgrade your Mac Plus, Mac SE, or 
Mac 11 by 2 Megabytes for $575. 
These SIMM modules are the newest 
.state-of-the-art plug-ins for Macs 
isted above. Low power eliminates 
the need for cooling devices. Using 
surface-mount technology these 
units should fit mo.st future models 
for many years. We offer a limited 
lifetime guarantee against mfg. de- 
fects. ( Dealers welcome. ) Vi.Sti/.MC 
accepted. 

D. M.S. (Data Memory Systems), Box 
783, Middleton, M A 01949, 
617/683-2325 

O Networking 

PhoneNET System 

The PhoneNET system creates an 
AppleTalk network with the conve- 
nience, added distance, & flexibility 
of telephone ware. PhoneNET sup- 
ports AppleTalk «& can u.se standard 
telephone cabling, even existing wir- 
ing. Components include: PhoneNET 
PLUS Connector, the PhoneNET Star- 
Controller, the TraflicWatch netwx^rk 
analysis pkg. & the PhoneNE'F Check- 
NET de.sk accessory Ctll for the deal- 
er nearest you. 

Farallon Computing, 2150 Kit- 
tredgeSt., Berkeley, CA 94704, 
413/849-2331 

CompuNet Connector 

LOW CO.ST-HIGI I QUALITY 
AppleTalk PhoneNet”* compatible 
network connector. Uses standard 
telephone wire. No special hardware 
required for 3000 ft. AppleTalk net- 
w'orks. $24.95 retail. SCSI Cables 25- 
50 & 50-50 UL. $24.95 retail. Dealer 
inquiries welcome. 



Trimar VSA hie.. 236 W. 13th St., 

New York, NY 10011, 800/872-4454, 
212/645-7008 

Ethernet for the Mac 

Kinetics provides Ethernet hardware 
and software for all Macintosh com- 
puters. These product include: 

• FastPath: An Applelalk-Ethernet 
gatewm* 

• EtherSC: A SCSI -Ethernet 
controller 

• EtherP(Xi SE: An internal Ethernet 
option card for the Macintosh SE 
AppleTalk and I’CP/IP software is 
supported. 

Kinetics, Inc., 2300 Camino Diablo 
it 10, Walnut Creek, CA 94396, 
415/947-0998 

O Peripherals 

Sunol Systems Hard Drives 

• Sunol offers mass storage ranging 
from 21 to 245MB. 

• .SUN*TALK ( di.sk server) increases 
productivity by sharing files and pro- 
grams for Mac, Apple II. Ilgs, IBM 
and other computers. 

• Expandability, netw'orking and 
backups are some of our features. 

• High capacity SCSI drives available. 

• Prices range from $1095 up. 

Sunol Systems, Inc., 1177 Quarry 
in., Pleasanton, CA 94.366, 
413/484-3322 

O Printer Interfaces 

Grappler CVMac/GS 

This Universal Parallel Printer Inter- 
face makes most popular la.ser and 
dot matrix printers perform 
flawle.ssly w'ith the Mac Plus. SE and 
II. The Grappler’s built-in intel- 
ligence allows the printer to emulate 
.Apple’s own ImageWriter II, eliminat- 
ing unreliable drivers and erratic- 
page sizes. Ju.st plug it in and print. 
It’s that easy! Suggested retail: $99. 
Orange Micro, Inc., 1400 N. Lake- 
view j\ve., Anaheim, CA 92807 
Order: 800/223-8029, in CA 
714/779-2772 



.Macworld 323 



Macworld Directory 



O Video 

MacMonltors/Projectors 

• Does your Mac need to be seen In 
the boardroom, classraom, trade 
show midway? Big-screen (17" to 
23"), high res color or monochrome 
w/antl-glare & vari scan, from 11,095. 

• Projector systems for the ultimate 
in Mac-impaci,from $3,895. • Rental 
MacMonItors & projectors avail. 

• Dealer inquiries. National 
Television Systems Co, 2113 Wells 
Branch Parkway, Suite 6100, Aus- 
tin, TX 78728, 512/2511392, 
800/777-3000 

Free! How to Link Video... 

From any Mac (512K, Plus, SE, II) 

. ..To large screen MacProjeciors^ 
-Color or B&W, to 10' tall! 

....To king-sized MacMonitors’“ 
-Shows, schools, user groups! 

....Tb regular TV or VCR for titles 
-NTSC, VHS, Beta, 8mm, Pro! 

• Digitize Images in PostScript for 
LaserWriter halftone pictures! 
Comtrex, Ltd., PO. Box 1450, El 
Tbro, CA 92630, free newsletter 
800/443-2751 xl45, technical 
questions 714/855-6600 



B Insurance 

Data Security Insurance 

The "all risk" Personal Computer Pol- 
icy from DSI includes essential cov- 
erage not available with other pol- 
icies: protection against loss of data 
(even from accidental erasure), loss 
of custom programs, & fraud. As low 
as $35 a year. Coverage can be bound 
b>. telephone, 9 to 4 Mountain Time. 
Data Security Insurance, 4800 
Riverbend Rd., P.O. Box 9003, Boul- 
der, CO 80301, 303/442-0900, 
800/822-0901 



Mmidi 

Call 1'800/FOR MIDI 

MIDI for everyone! Start your com- 
puter/MIDI system today with dis- 
count prices & expert help from 
FUTURE MUSIC. You don’t have to be 
a PRO-most of our customers are 
just “plain folks" with a home com- 
puter and a love of music. Call for 
FREE CATALOG of Hardware, Soft- 
ware, Synthesizers, 4-tracks and 
more. Ail major brands avail. 

Future Music Inc., 900 W First St., 
PO. Box 1090, Reno, NV 89504, 
702/826-6434 



■ Services 

O Data Conversion 

Electronic Data Conversion 

Conveniently translate data files from 
mainframes, minis, dedicated word 
processors, typesetters, & PCs (word 
processing embedded codes, data- 
base structures & spreadsheet re- 
ports & formulas) to Mac or almost 
any system. Ultimate technology. Na- 
tion's leading firms use our invalu- 
able services! 

CompuData Thanslators, Inc., 3325 
WUshire Blvd., It 1202, Los Angeles, 
CA, 213/462-6222, 800/825-8251 

Tape/Disk Conversions 

Conversion services for your Macin- 
tosh, to or from over 800 computer 
systems: 

• Mag tapes 

• Microcomputers 

• Word Processors 

• Typesetters 

Our conversion capabilities include 
to or from 3V2-lnch, 5‘A-lnch, and 8- 
Inch disks & mag tapes. 

Pivar Computing Services, Inc, 165 
Arlington Heights Rd., Dept MC, 
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089, 
312/459-6010 

O Desktop Publishing 

MaciypeNet^'* 

Mac/PC typesetting. Disk or modem. 
300-doc LaserWriter output; 635-, 
1270-, or 2540-iine Linotype^ L300P 
output. Composition, page makeup, 
prlntlng/blndery services. Hardware/ 
software sales, services, and support; 
beginning and advanced training and 
seminars for Macintosh, PC, and Li- 
notype 100/300 users. 

MacTypeNetf^ PO. Box 52188, 
Lilfonia, MI 48152-0188, 
313/477-2733 

Laser Printing Services 

LaserWriter (300-dpI)/Llnotype LlOO 
(1270-dpl) output of your Mac/IBM 
files. Disk or modem. 24 hr. service. 
Linotype $5 per page ($3.50 volume 
discount). LaserWriter $.50 per pg. 
Desktop publishing specialists in 
consulting & design services. Hard- 
^'are/software sales. Xerox \fentura 
Publisher for sale at low price. Full 
offset printing & bindery services 
avail. 

Laser Printing Services, 26058 W 
12-Mile Rd., Southfield, MI 48034, 
313/356-1004 (MI), 800/722-3475 
( nat T) Modem: 313(356-3186 



Laser Typesetting 

Professional-quality file output ser- 
vice at competitive prices. Mac or 
IBM, via disk or modem to our Laser- 
VCtiter or Linotype. Same-day ser- 
vice. We can also keyboard your 
copy, from a letterhead to a full- 
length novel. Also available: com- 
plete darkroom services and 
platemaking for your printer. Write or 
call toll free: 

Hodgins Engraving, Box 597, 
Batavia, NY 14020, 800/354-6500 
(Nat.) or 800/626-8900 (NY) 

Desktop Pub. Experts 

Use Silicon Valley experts for your 
manuals, catalogs, and other major 
publishing projects. We turn IBM and 
Macintosh text files into beautiful 
camera-ready art. • Difficult or 
large projects • Tbchnical illustra- 
tion • Graphics and pasteup • We 
take IBM disks. TECHDOC created 
over 20,000 pages last year for Bank 
of America, Pacific Bell, National 
Semiconductor and others. 
TECHDOC, 23990 SchultiesRd., Los 
Gatos, CA 95030, 408/353-2663 

O Graphics 

NVC/NJ/Phll,/DE Designers 

Desktop publishing doesn't have to 
look cheap! IBM or Mac files, disk or 
24-hr. modem, for high-resolution 
L300 output through award-winning 
color printing, binding, & mailing. 
Impartial system advice, in-depth 
training, & support for major DTP 
pkgs. -f PostScript Itself. Messenger 
service! Ask for K. Downs. 

Waldman Graphics, 9100 Penn- 
sauken Hwy, Pennsauken, NJ 
08110, 212/925-2420, 

215/627-7200, 201/522-8778, 
609/662-9111 

West Coast Connection! 

Upload by disk or 24-hr. modem for 
2540-line L300 output, with up to 30 
font calls per page. Support ail Ado- 
be fonts, Mac & PC software includ- 
ing \fentura, Pagemaker, and most PC 
word processors. 24-hr. turnaround. 
Adobe type dealer; beginning and 
advanced training for Mac, L300 and 
PC users. Convention service. 

Lazer Graphix, 314 Las Vegas Blvd., 
Las Vegas, NV 89101, 800/492- 
0020, 702/386-2626 (Voice), 
702/384-6761 (Fax). (24 hr. modem 
on line) 



O On-Line Info Service 

Delefolders 

Tblefolders is a national electronic in- 
formation service for Mac users only. 
Our software lets your Mac & any- 
speed modem access out public data 
base using only standard icons, win- 
dows, 8c pui 1-down menus. Browse, 
upload and download, with just a 
click of the mouse. No commands to 
learn, no typing to do. Over one-year 
old. $49.95 gets you a complete start- 
er kit, access time included. 
Semaphore Corp., 207 Granada 
Dr, Aptos, CA 95003, 408/ 
688-9200 



O Typesetting 

Command Typographer® 

MAC TYPOGRAPHY. Macintosh/ 
Quality^ Typesetting. Command 7)>- 
pographer^ features were on minis 
& mains. Sophisticated multipass 
H&J provides kerning, formats, tabs, 
vertical justification, micro justifica- 
tion, automatic leader, letter spacing. 
$495. Save $, copy disk/modem, 
high-res. typesetting/24 hrs. Typeset- 
ting avail. 

Regional 7}pographers/The Soft- 
ware Shop, 229 Bedford Ave., 
Bellmore, New York 11710, 
516/785-4422 



B Software 

O Accounting 

Payroll-General Ledger 

CheckMark PAYROLL and AMS GEN- 
ERAL LEDGER are full-featured ac- 
counting programs for $195 each. 
PAYROLL calculates all emplo>er and 
employee taxes. Prints checks and 
W-2s. User-modifiable tax tables. 
GENERAL LEDGER has extensive re- 
porting capabilities. Profit centers, 
budgeting, previous-year balances. 
CheckMark Software, Inc, P.O. Box 
860, Fort Collins, CO 80522, 
800/426-2466 ext. 338 

TUrn-Key Accounting^” 

4 modules that run w/ Omnls 3 + 

• RECEIVABLES/ORDER ENTRY- 
Back order control; prints invoices, 
delivery .slips, aging anytime 

• PAYABLES/PAYROLL-Checks, aging 
anytime 

• INVENTORY-PO’s 

• general LEDGER- Posting can be 
delayed until convenient. 

Modules $195 locked, $395 unlocked 
w/commemed listing 

Software Products Division, 22612 
South Avalon Blvd., Carson, CA 
90745-4190, 213/835-6077 



324 November 1987 



Grant Cost Accounting 

GRANT MANAGER is an accounting 
program for grants and other re- 
search funds. It tracks expenses by 
grant/cosi code, maintains vendor 
catalogs, and prints orders on your 
requisition forms. Reconciler bal- 
ances accounts with university led- 
gers. Prints vendor history, monthly 
expense summar>', etc. $425. 

Niles & Associates, 2200 Powell St., 
765M, Emenville, CA 94608, 
415/655‘6666 

O Apple Emulator 

II in a Mac™ new Version 

2.5RUN Apple II software on a Mac 
and still use desk accessories & Cut 
& Paste to Clipboard. Transfer Apple 
II disks to the Mac by cable or phone. 
Use UniDisk directly w/Mac drives. 
CONVERT Appleworks or any other 
Apple 11 data file into standard Mac 
textfiles. DEVELOP software using 
Apple II BASIC & ML. Full 65C02 
debugging system built in. 

NOT COPY PROTECTED. $149.95 

Computer:applications Inc., 12813 
LindleyDr, Raleigh, NC 27614, 
919/846-1411 

O Artificial Intelligence 

Instant Expert™ 

A simple and powerful Expert System 
Shell designed to be the easiest to 
use. The powerful inference engine 
provides an easy-to-use expert sys- 
tem application query. Forward and 
backward chaining as well as a 
unique mixed strategy gives real flex- 
ibility to users. The system can ex- 
plain how and why a conclusion was 
reached and give the user special 
Solution information. S198. 

Human Intellect Systems, 1670 S. 
Amphlett Blvd., San Mateo, CA 
94402, 4151571-5939 

O Astrology 

Graphic Astrology 

Accurate, easy-to-use GA calculates, 
displays & prints charts and other 
data.Basic $39.50. Advanced $129.50. 
Introducing the Gamma Version for 
$199.50. Faster, uses more of Mac 
Tbolbox, Multiple Windows, more 
options & documents. Convens to 
MacPaint. Support Laser & Mac II. 
Vlsa/MC OK. Info, upon request. 

Time Cycles Research, 27 Dimmock 
Rd., mterford, CT, 06385, 
2031444-6641 



O Authorship 

NEW-Course Builder™ 

Go from concept to code with no 
middleman. Create stand-alone appli- 
cations with user input, graphics, an- 
imation, and sound. This visual 
language provides a next-generation 
development environment. Program- 
ming is as easy as drawing a flow- 
chart of your thoughts. Send for a 
brochure, demo on CompuServ. 

$395. 

TbleRobotics^ International, Inc., 
8410 Oak Ridge Hwy, Knoxville, TN 
37931, 6151690-5600 

O Backup/ Restore 

HFS Backup”' 

Back up (archive) data from your 
hard disk. Back up/restore the entire 
disk, selective files, or changes only. 
Includes/excludes files based on 
name, class, or data modified. Cre- 
ates backup templates, sa\'es/prinis 
file list (hierarchically by folder 
or alphabetically by file) $49.95. 
{AppleShare version avail. $149.) 
MCA^isa or at your dealer. 

Personal Computer Peripherals 
Corp, 6204 Benjamin Rd., Tampa, 
PL 33634, 8131884-3092, 
800/622-2888 

O Billing 

Invoiclng^lfob Costing 

Office Productivity System"'* (OPS). 
For professionals that bill based on 
time-use. Includes invoicing, time- 
keeping/productivity reports, job 
budget/cost tracking, client database 
with mail merge and accounts receiv- 
able. Multiuser capable. 512K Mac 
with hard or external drive. Avail, 
now for $475. 

Applied Micronetics, 3 Burnt Oak 
Circle, Lafayette, CA 94549, 
415/283-4498 

TimeMinder^'* 

is an automatic time billing/produc- 
tivity tracking program and D/A. It 
operates in the background, using 
the clock to eliminate manual 
timelogs. Fully featured. Allows for 
manual entry of time, attachment of 
255 character note. Includes 
PauseTime D/A. Price: $139. 

Aatrux Soft ware, PO. Box 21 7 A, 
Grand Forks, ND 58206, 
701/746-7202 



$69.95 • Financial Forecasting: 
VC'brkbook, sample pro-forma mod- 
els, macros, graphs, instructions: 
$49.95 • Sales and Market Fore- 
casting: Workbook, sample models, 
macros, graphs, where to find infor- 
mation: $49.95 

Infoplan, Inc., 155 Forest Ave., Palo 
Alto, CA 94301, 415/325-3190 



O Clip Art 

MAC-ART LIBRARY 



Illustrate your ideas ^x/ MAC-ART 
LIBRARY! 12 disks of professional 
MacPaint images: 



• Animals 

• Farm Life 

• Geography 

• Kitchen 

• Sports 

• Tbols 

• Buildings 



• Flowers/TVees/ 
Plants 

• Greeting Cards 

• People 

• Traasportation 

• Signs/Symbolsr' 
Borders 



Sgl. disks $39.95. Full library $250. 
Sampler $49.95. $3s/h. Otherdisks. 
CompuCRAFTP.O. Box3155, 
Englewood, CO80155, 
3031791-2077 



Interesting Graphics 

Ourskilled illustrator has produced 5 
col lections foryour Mac://orror./fl:?^/- 
tasyi/=l, By tesof Fright, Dinosaur 
Bytes{ natural h\siovy\SkyBytes 
( aerospace ), and Classic Sci Fi. The 
col lec t ions contai n a variety of i mages, 
each ofwhich is careful Ivcrafted. Each 
collection is $29.95 ( $32.05 in C A). 
AAH Computer GraphicsProduc- 
tions, Box4508, Santa Clara, CA 
95054.408/980-7363 

Alternative Graphics 

Boredw/clipart?>X’eoffer2exciiing 

newgraphicscollections: 

• DRAWINGS BYLEONARDO- 
Leonardoda Vinci sfinest drawings 
ofanatomy, engineering, nature^ 
.science-faithfullyreproducedas 
MacPaint images. • COMICARDS 
-Create personalized cards, messages, 
invitation,or“artforart’ssake"w/cre- 
ative& humorous vol.ofcartoons& il- 
lu.s. $29.95ea. -f $3s/h.Chk/MOonly. 
(CA res. add 6%) 

ScanMaster, 2700 West Coast Hwy. 
H^220, Newport Beach,CA92663, ' 
714/548-5967 



O Business Planning 

Excel Business Toolkits 

• Develop Your Business Plan: 
200-pg. workbook, 21 tables, 16 
graphs,complete in.structions: 



ART WARE Graphics Library 

Detailed commercial graphicscreated 
^ii\\AdoheIllustrator. Use with pro- 
gramsthat import Encap. Postscript 
files. Pictorial index included. Useas is, 
ormodifywith///r^9/m/or$8995/disk. 
orsubscribe. 

• 6issues(save30%)$378 

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You may floatyoursubscription: 

Ar t ware Systetns Inc., 3741 Benson 
Dr., Raleigh, NC 27609, 
919/872-6511,800/426-3858 

O Communications 

Mac2624: HP CRT Emulator 

Lets your Mac emulate the HP2624, 
HP2392. and HP2394. reliably run- 
ning all HP3000 .software. Imple- 
ments HP modes, parameters, 
keyboard features, and display 
characteristics within the .Mac s 
mouse/menu/8€-key environment. 
Ultrafast file transfer (with text and 
graphics conv’ersion options) 
included $199. 

Tymlahs Corp., 211 E. Seventh St., 
Austin, TX 78701, 512/478-0611, 
Telex 755820 

pcLINK"^ 

A complete Macintosh interconnect 
solution for VAX (VMS and ULTRIX) 
and UNIX systems. Provides terminal 
emulation (Vr241, VT220, VriOO), 
file-transfer, virtual-disk, and print- 
server functionality. Supports serial 
line, remote modem, AppleTalk, 
Ethernet, or Omninet communica- 
tions media. 

Pacer Software, Inc., 7911 HerscM 
Ave., ^402, La lolla, CA 92037, 
619/454-0565 

TextTerm+ Graphics 

A new, fast, flexible DEC VTIOO text 
emulator and Tektronix (4014, 4105) 
graphics emulator. Reverse scroll; 
transfer text, tables, graphics (Paint/ 
PICT); high-quality color printing/ 
plotting; file shipping; editor for 
correcting/electronic mail, direct 
LaserWriter support. $195. 

Mesa Graphics, P.O. Box 600, Los 
Alamos, NM 87544, 505/672-1998 

Contact""* 

Burroughs emulation. Contact soft- 
ware emulates TD/MT/ET terminals. 
Sophisticated data capture-all 
screen data can he used by spread- 
sheet, database, wx>rd processor- 
...CANDE 8i XMODEM file transfer. 
Fully d la Mac interface. Soft keys, 
multiple pages & addresses, pass- 
word protect ion... Soon: full file- 
transfer capabilities, Sperry terminal 
emulation. 

Avenue Software, Inc., 1173 W 
Charest Blvd., Quebec, QC, Canada 
GIN 2C9, 418/682-3088 



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O Data Acquisition 

MacPacq 

The MacPacq transforms the Macin- 
tosh into a di^»itial ascilloscope, chart 
reairder & \v:iveform generator. A 
complete data acquisition & control 
system. 8 channel A/T). 8 digital 
I/O, programmable gain, 64K IL\M. 
Optically i.solated, line or nicad pow- 
ered. Runs remote and/or connected 
to Mac. Comprehensive software in- 
terface provides for powerful & flex- 
ible system. I99S complete. 

Biopac Systews, 42 Aero Camirio 
doleta, CA9M17, 
H0S/96H‘88H0 

O Desktop Engineering 

Parameter Manager’" 

IX'signed for peoj'ile who need to 
manage, analyze & graph time, date, 
or sample-based data. No macros or 
templates are needed to praduce 
trend plots, strip charts, histograms, 
forecasts, parametric plots, statistics, 
correlation, and financial high-low 
charts. Plot up to 32,000 data points, 
96" X 48" in size. Text import & "Cal- 
culated Parameters" $49*5. Complete 
Demo $10. MCA'isa. 

Structural Measurement Systems, 
Inc. (SMS), 651 River Oaks Parkway, 
San Jose, CA 95134. 408/263-2200. 
Orders 800/654-5147, 800/ 
247-4994 (CA) 

O Desktop Presentations 

Color 35mm Slides 

Carousel Color Slide Software^’* lets 
you create 2*56-color 35mm slides 
from MacDraw files. Use graphics 
from many o\\\ev MacDraw compati- 
ble programs. Thmsfer slide files by 
modem to a professional imaging 
center. 2K resolution slides only $7 
each. Slides in 24hrs-free delivery. 
Call for free samples. 

20/20 Data Systems, 7000 Cam- 
eron Rd, Austin, TX 78752, 
512/454-2508 



O Desktop Publishing 

Interactive PostScript 

Program Postscript interactively 
over AppleTalk using the PostI la.ste^** 
integrated programming environ- 
ment. Full-featured editor, .separate 
error-message capture window, & 
fa.st uploader with no file size limit. 
Great for the beginner, essential for 
the serious PostScript programmer! 
$59.95. 

Micw Dynamics, J.tcl., De/)t. 
8555SixteentJ)St., it8()2. Silver 
Sprinyi, Ml) 20910, 800/634-7638 
or 301/589-6300 

MacPalette 

by Microspoi prints multicolored 
graphics & text from most Macintosh 
software using the Imagewriier II. 
MacPalette will colorprint docu- 
ments from MacDraw, Mac Draft, 
MiniCad, MacPmJect, MacWrite, 
JAZZ, Micmsoft C/xtrt, Word. Excel 
etc. ( not MacPaint . ) It prints black as 
a true black instead of mixing a 
black. $69. 

CompSen Co. 800 Preedom, Slidell, 
lA 70458. 800/272-5533 or 
504/649-0484 

O Educational 

Gradebook/Test Generator 

MICROGIUDF-flexible course «& 
grading, 400 student.s/100 assign- 
ments per class, prints stats ik vari- 
ous reports. Ideal for any grade level. 
MICROTEST 1 1 -create, update, gen- 
erate, & store exam materials. Easy 
question entry, large database, multi- 
ple test versions. Demo $5. FREE 
EDUCATIONAL CATALOG. 

CJjariot Software Group. 3659 In- 
dia St. ^MDl, San Die^o. CA 92103, 
6191298-0202 

Brainchild Grade 

Unique graphic interface, like paper 
grade book, extremely easy to use. 
'RMal integration of spreadsheet, 
database, & report-generating soft- 
ware. Free-form class structure, enor- 
mous capacity, Sc speed! Complete 
stats 8c graph program. Intricately de- 
tailed user’s manual. Value-priced at 
$25. No other prt)gram comes close! 
Brainchild Corp., avail. tJjrouf^h tJje 
Kitiko's Academic Courseware 
ExcJjange. To order, call 800/235- 
6919, 800/292-6640 in California 



"be.si educational testing tool on the 
market!" 

Logic extension Resources, 9651 -C 
Business Center Dr, RancJjo 
Cucamonga, CA 91730-4537, 
714/980-0046 



MacKids^ 

•*The Learning Edge** 



Alphabeiizer 
Nav’al Hattie 
HodyWorks 
CoinWorks 
Preschool I 
Early Elementary 



Lemonade Stand 
Clockworks 
WordSearch 
FlashWorks 
Preschool 2 
Earthworks 



Eiich title $39.95 MC/Visa/Chk. Write 



or call for a free catalog. 

Nordic Software, Inc. 3939 North 
48th St., Uncoln, NE 68504, 
800/228-0417, 402/466-6502 



MacANATOMY 

A complete electronic atlas of human 
anatomy in MacPaint document 
form. The drawings may be modified 
and merged into MacWrite docu- 
ments using the Clipboard. Com- 
prised of four volumes, available sin- 
gly or as a collection. 

MacMedic I^uhlications, Inc., 4805 
Westheimer, Houston, IX 77057, 
713/977-2655 



Kieran 

Integrated learning program for chil- 
dren 2-6 yrs. Uses child's name in 
speech and pictures. Totally mouse 
driven interactive program with 
iconic interface. Covers alphabet 
training, time telling, counting .skills, 
upper-lower case, and mystery door! 
4 mice rating in Macl 'ser. Great gift! 
.VUTVisa $39.95. 

Ohm Soj'tware, 163 Richard Dr., 
B'iverton. RI 02878, 401/253-9454 



Children’s Programs 

Exceptional graphics, multiple 
activities & difficulty levels. 

• Macrohots ( t(^ 5 yrs. ) $49.95 

• Animal Kingdom (6- 10) Science 
language arts $49.95 

• Read-A-Rama (5-9)2 disks of read- 
ing programs $59.95 

• Math Wizard {5-\2) 4 games $49.95 

• Traction Action (8 & up) Talking 
arcade game 8c tutorial $49.95 

• Decimal Dungeon (9 up) $49.95 

• MGVisa/AE-free catalog 
Unicorn Soj'tware Co., 2950 E., 
Flamingo Rd. Ste. B, Las Vegas, NV 
89121. 702/737-8862 



Algebra Homework TUtor 

Revolutionary Home worklb tor™ lets 
\'ou do your Algebra hcjmew'ork or 
clas.swork on a Mac. Checks each 
step you enter, gives hints, pases 
practice problems, soKes and ex- 
plains examples, and prints com- 
pleted homework. E;isy editing, 
.standard Mac interface, and too much 
more to tell. Send for free brochure. 
Missing Link Software, Box 3280. 
South Amboy, A7 08879, 
201/721-2569 ' 

Flash&Match FLASHCARDS 

• Create and learn facts from topics 
like language, chemi.stry (sub/supcr- 
scripis), math. • )bu .select practice/ 
te.sting methods. • Save test data for 
any number of people. • Fun ani- 
mations reward kids-you can 
change them! $49.95 ( 4-CA (J/i% 
tax) includes 1 year current events 
databases. Call for info. 

InVenture, Inc., 555 Dellaro H330, 
San Francicso, CA 94107, 
415/626-9986 



O Educational/Games 

WHO AM I? 

A challenging and entertaining edu- 
cational quiz game about the li\’es of 
famous people, past and present, 
from around the world. Hilla ms of 
different plays to intrigue you. You 
may even earn yourself a named cer- 
tificate! Excellent training for TV 
shows, contests, etc. All ages. 512K 
min. US $44.95 

Mimics Software. 21 Wood St., 
Eastwood NSW 2122, Australia 
(61 )-2-8683572 



O Engineering 

Digital Logic Design Aid 

LogiWorks is an interactive digital 
logic drawing & simulation package 
for the .Macintosh. Features: 

• built-in library of common gates, 
flip-flops, etc. 

• u.ser-delined devices, PROMs 8c PLAs 

• adjustable device delays 

• 3-state 8i (^pen-collector devices 

• produces liming diagram of se- 
lected .signals • $159.95 (U,S.) 

• Pkg. incl. 7400, analog libraries, & 
net list utility $199.95 

Capilano Computing. 300-1 120 
Hamilton St., Vancouver. B.C , Can- 
ada, V6B 252 604/669-6343 



Best Testing System! 

13CR*TE.ST brings desktop publishing 
to test generation! Combining graph- 
ics, word proce.ssing. and database 
management; 13CR»TES'r enables you 
to produce tests easier and belter 
than exet-We guarantee it! See why 
I^R»TEST has been proclaimed the 



O Engineering 

Civil & Structural 

Fully interactive analysis pmgrams 
for 2-D frames, tru.sses. beams: 
FRA.ME MAC, HEAM MAC. BEAM 



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MAC II. Structure, shear, moment, 
deflection diagrams, output text, 
more. $145 to $595. Demo avail. 
NEW: MacCOGO for geometric & 
structural properties of shapes: $145. 
Money-back guarantee. Traditional 
COGO coming soon. 

Erez Anzel Software, 113 McCabe 
Cresent, Thornhill, Ontario, 

Canada L4J 2S6, 4161738-4601 

Graphics File Translator 

DXF now available! CADMOVER is 
expanding, tranlations between 
DXF, IGES, MiniCad, MacDraw, PICT, 
DIMENSIONS, and more. Multiple 
translation paths allow maximum 
flexibility in your work environment. 
Creates MSC/pal model definition 
files. Runs on Mac 512K, Plus, SE and 
Mac II. $495. 

Kandu Software Corp., F.O. Box 
10102, Arlingtoti, VA 22210-1102, 
7031532-0213 

Finite Element Analysis 

MSC, the leader in FEA technology, 
markets a full line of FEA tools for 
personal computers. Starting at $45 
for MSC/pal INTRO on either the 
IBM PC or the Apple Macintosh, our 
products are designed to be com- 
plete and easy-to-use. Interfaces for 
most CAD syvStems available. 

The MacNeal-Sclmendler Corp., 

815 Colorado Blvd,, Los Angeles, CA 
90041 213/259-3888 

Radar Seminar 

A combined pictorial and text pre- 
sentation discussing the principles of 
target detection. An automated Blake 
Chart is included for the calculation 
of radar range. The Seminar is at the 
introducton' level, but the Blake 
Chart is useful at all experience lev- 
els and enhances parameter itera- 
tion. $25 including &/h. 

Bold Ideas, HUBS. Diamond Bar 
Blvd. =ff^l34, Diamond Bar, CA 
91765 

Scientific Plotting Package 

So/tWear Plot produces publication- 
quality plots using multicolumn 
ASCII file (e.g., program outputs, text 
editors, spreadsheets). Linear or log- 
arithmic formats in either axis, over- 
lays, zoom, on-line measurements, 
custom labels and tokens. Number of 
points limited only by di.sk space. 
I-a.serWriter and big-screen compati- 
ble, $99.95 + 55 s/h. 

SoftWear Products, 7230 Oliver St., 
Lanham, MD 20706, 301/577-9207 



Microprocessor Devlpmt. 

Macintosh-based absolute cross- 
a.ssemblers & editor for MPUs: 

• 6800/0V02/03/08/6301/6303 

• 6804/HC04 • 8048/C48/49/50 

• 6805/HC05 • 8051/C51/52 

• 6809/HC09 • 6502/CO2/C00 

• 68HC11 • 1802/05 • COPS400 
Fast. Macros & conditional assy, sup- 
ported. Genemtes S/Hex records. US 
$99.95 ea. (specify MPU series) + $4 
s/h. Call/write for brochure. MC/Visa 
Check/COD. 

Micro Dialects, Inc., Dept. MWIO, 
P.O. Box 30014, Cincinnati, OH 
45230, 513/271-9100 

Continuous Beam Analysis 

W' or w/o overhang at one or both 
ends. 23 prgs. for concentrated loads 
& 23 prgs. for distributed loads (lb./ 
ft.). 3 loads/2 supports consecutively 
thru 25 Ids/24 sup. Easy to use-click 
the icon for number of loads & go. 
Runtime-interpreter 25 lds/24 sup or 
compiled 23 lis/22 sup. $280 either. 
.Mac Plus & external dd drive req’d. 
Joe Mcgee Consulting Engineer 
(Regis. P.E.), 1401 NW 105 Terrance, 
Oklahoma City, OK 73114, 
405/751-4275 

O Financial 

Loan Amortization 

Am Pack is a straightforward loan- 
amortization software package de- 
signed by a CPA & tax attorney. Am- 
Pack supports variable rates, 
graduated, skipped, & principal-only 
payments. Also includes balloons, 
negative amortizations, customized 
.schedules, loan analvsis, & more. 
$49.50 + $5 s/h. MCA^isa. 

Softjlair, Inc., 8753 Park View, 
Milwaukee, m 53226, 4141- 
778-7200 

MacMoney^” 

Gain control of your finances with 
this record keeper & financial plan- 
ner designed for the Macintosh”* 
with your needs in mind. Easy trans- 
action entry. Print checks, multiple 
reports, & graphs. Transfer data to a 
text file for extra benefits from Ex- 
cer* or other programs. Introduc- 
tory price $74.95 -F .s/h. Req. 512K. 
Sttrvivor Softivare Ltd., 11222 La 
Cienega Blvd. ^450, Inglewood, CA 
90304, 213/410-9527 



O Financial Planning 

Masterpiece’*' 

A comprehensive Financial Planning 
System developed by CFPs to cover 
all areas of financial concern and 
practice management for financial 
planners, stockbrokers, & CPAs. 
Completely integrates Omnis 3 & 
Microsoft Excel. Entirely updated to 
the current tax laws. $3,500. Multi- 
user and demo versions avail. 
Strategic Planning Systems, 15233 
Ventura Blvd., 1(^708, Sherman 
Oaks, CA 91403, 818/784-6863 

O Fonts 

Downloadable Laser Fonts 

Specialized fonts for the LaserWriter. 
Classical Greek $85. Serif^sans serif 
for scientific texts $75. Font of 100 
chemical structures $125 (with scien- 
tific text fonts $160). Polish serif or 
sans serif $85 each (4 styles). Serif 
small caps $40. Regular or Polish (4 
styles). Modern Greek $85. MCA'isa. 
As mentioned in Feb. '87 issue. 
Allotype Typographies, 1600 Pack- 
ard Rd. #5. Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 
313/663-1989 

FONTagenix & L ASERgenix 

FONTagenix:^“ 4 volumes of dot- 
matrix display fonts $29.50 each vol. 
(all 4 $99.50) FOREIGN FONTS EDI- 
TION:^** 22 foreign language fonts on 
disk, $49.50. LASERgenbe"”: Down- 
loadable laser fonts, text, extended 
Cyrillic & new bold fonts. $32.50 
each. (Add $3 s/h, CA res. add 6%. 
Write for samples or order at: 
Devonian International Software, 
PO. Box 2351, Montclair, CA91763, 
714/621-0973 

Free PostScript Font 

LaserFonts, the world’s largest Post- 
Script font library. 32 font families 
and growing. ITC fonts. Rated four 
mice by MacUser. For a free, full- 
function font, send blank disk and 
business size envelope with 76<r 
postage. Catalog with full-page 
samples, $2. Call or write for 
free info. 

Century Software, Inc., 2483 
Hearst Ave., i/175, Berkeley, CA 
94709, 415/549-1901, 213/829- 
4436 

O Genealogy 

MacGene'“ (version 2.5) 

60% faster 8c 100% complete. 
Designed specifically for the Mac. 
Integrated programs for data entry, 
search, select, list & charting. Inch 
History, Hints, Mail-List, Family TVee, 
Statistics, Launch. 

• LDS compatible • Mac’s & Mac-XL 



• Extensive Notes • User Fields 

• Custom Reports# Impori/Export 

• No copy protect* 80 pg. manual 

• $-back guarantee $145 
Applied Ideas, Inc., P.O. Box 3225, 
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, Or- 
der/free info: 21 3 1545-2996 

Family Heritage File 

Most powerful genealogy program 
on the Mac. Licensed version of Per- 
sonal Ancestral File, produced by 
the LDS Church. 

• Mac user interface • Supports all 
Macs 8c hard disks except 128K Mac 

• Exports data to word processors/ 
databases/modems 

• Reports: Pedigree, Family Group, 
Individuals, Marriages, Surnames, 
Documentation, etc, $149 + $3 .s/h 
(Utah re.s. -f 6%). Demo $7. 
StanCom Software Systems, Wind- 
sor Park East, 25 West 1480 North, 
Orem, UT 84057, 801/225-1480 

FAMILY ROOTS"^ 

Do it YOUR way! Huge variety and 
capacity for your family history. 
Makes pedigree charts and indices. 
Phased releases will add group 
sheets, searches and much, much 
more. Standard Mac screens/mouse. 
Free brochure and sample printouts. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Currently 
$72.50, add $22.50 per each new re- 
lease (total $185) MC/Visa/AE. 
Quincept, Box 216, Lexington, MA 
02173, 617/641-2930 

O Graphics 

MacPerspective ™ 

Allows architects, draftspeople, and 
artists to rapidly construct perspec- 
tive drawings of houses, buildings, or 
other objects. Viewpoint can easily 
be changed. Drawings can be printer 
in any size up to 100 inches. Easy to 
learn and use. Fast, professional pro- 
gram with many features, thorough 
manual. $179. 

B. Knick Drafting, 313 Marlin PI, 
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951, 
305/727-8071 

MGMStation-Prof. CAD 

by Micro CAD/CAM, Inc. is a high 
powered CAD program for the Mac 
similar to AutoCAD. MGM boasts 
over 140 powerful functions includ- 
ing: at-v coordinate input, polar or 
digital data input, 100 power zoom 
accurate to 4 decimals, tangent draw- 
ing tools and much more! $799. 
Demo disk and/or VCR tape avail. 
CompServCo, 800 Freedom, Slidell, 
LA 70458, 800/272-5533 or 
504/649-0484 



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Perspective Drawing 

GridMaker:'"* perseciive grid con- 
struction set. Create a \^riety of 3* 
dimensional grids that can be used 
within MacDraw or MacDraft as a 
guide for perspective drawing. Grid 
shape, dimensions, line density, rota- 
tion, and perspective are indepen- 
dently controlled. Switcher compat- 
ible $49. Visa/MC. 

Folkstone Desif^n Inc., P.O. Box 
44, Grantham's Landing, B.C., 
Canada VON IXD, 6041886-4502 

MiniCad 3.0 

by Diehl Graphsoft boasts 10004- 
power zoom, symbol library, 40 
layers, auto-dimensioning, double- 
line tool, clip/add/intersect polygons 
tools, object snap, fillet & trim-lines 
tools, object sizer & locator, 9 deci- 
mals accuracy, full 2-D & 3-D modes, 
etc. It reads MacDraw & MacDraft 
files. $495. Demo avail. 

CompServCo., 800 Freedom, Slidell, 
LA 70458, 800/272-5533 or 
504/649-0484 

MacPlot & MacCAD 

MacPlot by Microspot is a powerful 
plotter driver that will plot any 
object-oriented graphics produced 
on the Mac in up to 30 colors/pens. 
MacPlot supports over 50 plots, Mac- 
CAD is a series of 12 separate archi- 
tectural & engineering template 
symbol libraries for use with Mac- 
Draw, MacDraft, MiniCad, etc. 
CompServCo, 800 Freedom, Slidell, 
LA 70458, 800/272-5533 or 
504/649-0484 

GraphPack Plot Library 

Appends to a Microsoft FORTRAN 
program to generate chart&'graphs. 
Includes industry standard calls 
(plot, line, axis, etc.) and 3D hidden- 
line routines. Direct interface to clip- 
board and printers (e.g. LaserWriter) 
for high-quality output. Graphs can 
be edited in MacDraw. Source code 
included. $69.95. 

Lipa Software, 165 Harcross Rd., 
Woodside, CA 94062, 415/366-0547 

GraphPalnter^” 

Already pnwen in indu.stry and uni- 
versity use! Does scatter, line, area, 
bar, column, overlays, log, semilog, 
multiaxis, multiseries «& more. You 
control scaling, grids, markers, pat- 
terns. etc. Finish with the paint tools 
& 7 curve fits. Full I/O of data & 
graphics, undo & manual, 512K-F 
req. $50. 

Greg Brasel, P.O. Box 4274, Chester- 
field, MO 63006. 314/256-3317 



MapMaker Business Map 

Uses boundary definitions to draw 
maps to required size. Includes US. 
by state and county, world by country, 
and census data. Assigns data, 
unique patteriVcolor to each region. 
(2an combine areas into custom re- 
gions. Import/export data (e.g. Ex- 
C6?/"”) and graphics (Paint or PICT). 
Print on LaserWriter or in color on 
ImageWriter II. Color displav on 
Macintosh II. $295.00 
Select Micro Systems, Inc., 40 B'ian- 
gle Center H211, Yorktown Heights, 
NY 10598, 914/245-4670 

O Health 

Healthcare Management 

Creators of Den talMac, MediMac, 
ChiroMac & OptiMac. First software 
line exclusively for heaJth-care indus- 
try. Software utilizes Macintosh inter- 
face. Single-user & multiuser ver- 
sions available. Practice management 
software that generates additional in- 
come and enhances patient rela- 
tionships. Send for Information or 
DemoDisk kit. 

Healthcare Communications, 245 
South 84th St., ^301, Lincohi, NE 
68510, Tbll free: 800/422-6227 

Nutritional Software 

Take steps to eat more sensibly. An- 
alyze diets for nutritional content 
(calories, sodium, etc.) Nutri-Calc 
Plus^^ includes 32 nutrients, 1700-f 
foods (3000 avail.). Offers RDA Com- 
parison, tracks histories, energy anal- 
ysis. $225. Nutri-Calc^ analyzes 8 
nutrients, 900 4- foods. Plots pro- 
gress, analyzes recipes. $95. Both 
have brand name 8c fast foods, NCR 
CAMDE Corp., 4435 S. Rural Rd., 
41331, T^mpe, AZ 85282, 602/ 
821-2310 

Family Care Software 

Illness? Injury? Learn what to do 
when your child is hurting. Family- 
Care will help you diagnose the prob- 
lem and tell you how to get proper 
medical help-anytime day or night. 
Developed by expert pediatricians, 
Family Care is comprehensive, reli- 
able, and easy-to-use. Ages new- 
born-15 yrs. $180, guaranteed. 
Lundin Laboratories, 29451 Green- 
field Rd., 44216, Southfield, Ml 
48076. 800/426-8426 



O HyperCard Stackware 

Business Info Stacks 

Find help & information on state in- 
corporation, licenses, taxes, compa- 
ny start-up, business planning etc. 

Ju.st $9.95 for Small Business Guide 
HyperCard stacks listing state and 
federal government publications & 
other sources. 

Call for additional stacks, business 
workbooks, Excel templates, etc. 
Business Library Software, 720 S. 
Hiliview Dr, Milpitas, CA 
95035,800/228-2275 (Nat.), 
800/221-4089 (CA) 

Ohnports 

Japanese Software 

E/G Word (Ergosoft Inc.) is a Jap- 
anese word processor; can turn ro- 
maji sentences into kana & kanji. 
$399. Req. 512K. Also: 

E/G Bridges $249. ./AM (A & A Co. 
Ltd.) Input Japanese in major Mac 
application software, $149. 

• Japanese Clip-Art Vol. 1 & 2, 

$79.95 ea. 

• Mac Calligraphy simulates 
medium of ink & brush on paper 
$149.95. (Enzan Hoshlgumi Co.) 
Qualitas TYading Co., 6907 Norfolk 
Rd., Berkeley, CA 94705, 
415 / 848-8080 

O Investment 

Profits! 

Powerful, very fast, very flexible, 
new program allows you to pick win- 
ning trades, avoid the losing trades. 
Charting tools include stochastics, 
MACD, moving averages, RSI, and 
much more. For the stock, commodi- 
ties, or options Investor broker. $495. 
Orders & info requests only to 
800/628-2828 ext. 403. 

Button-down Software, P.O. Box 
19493, San Diego, CA 92119, 

The Right Time System 

Tlie Stock, Index & Futures pro- 
grams generate accurate Buy/Sell 
signals for individual stocks. Indexes 
and commodities. The software ^'as 
developed by an expert portfolio 
manager for his own personal use & 
is now available for any smart trader 
who w'ants to make quick profits. 
Call or write for free info. 

T.B.S.P. Inc., 2265 Westwood Blvd. 
44793, Los Angeles, CA 90064, 
213/312-0154 



modifying only three lines of code. 
Includes full DA, file, & edit menus 
and multiple windows. Source code 
included A/c/-V?ce. sub 3.0, allows 
further flexibility picture editing, 
alerts, dialogs, & more without a 
toolbox call. Tools $119, sub $40. 

Both $149. 

Tensor Laboratories, P.O. Box 9723, 
Stanford, CA 94305, 7071763-7873 

LISP Development System 

MacScheme4- Toolsmith’“ has what 
you want for interactive development: 

• Native code compiler 

• Stand-alone applications 

• Easy-to-use window & menu 
objects 

• Multitasking & interrupts 

• A standard LISP dialect: Scheme 
1 1L\M, $395. Interpreted Mac- 
Scheme^" still only $125. (Req. 512K) 
Semantic Microsystems, Inc., 4470 
S.W. Hall St., 44340, Beaverton, OR 
97005, 503/643-4539 



O Management 

GYST 

The only information management 
program for salespeople and other 
professionals 

• Client organization systems 

• Record each contact with a client 

• Integrated appointment calendar 

• Powerful report generator 

• Mall merge 

The productivity of your entire office 
will improve. $99.95. 

Contact Systems, Inc., 509 River- 
view Dr, Marietta, GA 30067, 
404/953-8242, 800/322-4588 

O Market Research 

MaCATI'“ 

Computer Assisted Telephone Inter- 
viewing pkg. Survey/market re- 
search, political polling/tele- 
marketing. 

• Auto dialing 

• Handles skip patterns 

• Call records/appts. 

• Statistics 

• Netw'orks interviews 

• 500 quesiiuns/2yrs. in devlpmi. 
$795 for 2 station pkg. $200 ea. addi- 
tional pkg. 

PSRC Software, Bowling Green State 
University, Bowling Green, OH 
43403, 419/372-2497 



O Languages 

FORTRAN + Mac Interface 

McFace Tbols 3.0 provides Fortran 
programs with Mac interface by 



328 November 1987 



Q Mathematics 

PowerMath 

Solves problems from simple algebra 
to complicated calculus expressions. 
You can differentiate, integrate, plot 
polynomial expressions, manipulate 
matrices, solve simultaneous equa- 
tions, and create custom functions. If 
you are a student, engineer, or work 
with math, you’ll love the easy-to-use 
versatility. Retail $100. 

Central Products Corp., 2211 Nor- 
folk it 51 8, Houston, TX 77098, 
7131529-1080 

Q Medical 

Medical & Dental Mgmt. 

Solo or multipractitioner office in- 
cludes patient (responsible party) 
billing, recall, paper/electronic 
claims, aging, collections, SuperBill, 
labels, diagnostic history, Word/ 
MacWrite, audit & productivity re- 
ports. 24-hr. support. 512K+ hard 
disk or XL, MacSE & II. Mac Office. 
Demo from SIOO. AMEX/Visa/NlC. 
2400+ dealers. 

CMA Micro Computer, 55888 Yucca 
nail, PO. Box 2080, Yucca Valley, 

CA 92286-2080, 619/365-9718 

O Networking 

Connections Newsletter 

Provides in-depth information on 
networking Macs to each other, to 
PCs, minicomputers, and main- 
frames. This timely resource con- 
tains product review\s, user articles 
on network planning, and implemen- 
tation & intros to networks and 
AppleTalk. If you’re thinking of 
networks, you need Connectiotrs! 
Connections, PO. Box 5894, Fuller- 
ton. CA 92635, 714/738-1492 

O Payroll 

Time Saver Payroir'* V.3.0 

COMPLETE FULL-FEATURED 
Payroll System 

• Calculates • Accumulates 

• Prints reports • Salaried, hourly, 
& comm, wages • 10 deductions, 
incl. fed. & state taxes • Tax tables 
easily edited by user • Monthly & 
quarterly reports, incl. 941, FUTA/ 
940, SUTA • Prints checks and W-2 
forms • Flexible-easy to use! Req. 
Microsoft Excel $75 + $3 s/h. MC/ 
Visa/Chk. Demo $10 + $3 s/h. 

Western Software Associates, 110 El 
Dorado Rd., Walnut Creek, CA 
94595, 415/932-3999 



A Great Value! 

Fully featured /\atrix Payroll calcu- 
lates, generates, and accumulates 
FICA, Federal and State taxes, unem- 
ployment reports and quarterly sum- 
maries.Now includes check design 
feature for use with any payroll 
check. Prints W2 statements. Includes 
passw'ord protection. Price: $79. 
Aatrix Software^"* , PO. Box 217 A, 
Grand Forks, ND 58206, 
701/746-7202 

O Plotter Drivers 

Plot-It 

Plots MacDraw, MacDraft, Mac- 
Project, MacPaint, etc. on popular 
Apple, HP, or Houston Instruments 
pen plotters in sizes A,B,C,D, and E. 
Use for accurate engineering and ar- 
chitectural drawings or color data 
plots. Flexible color interface and 
,scaling. $125. See review in October 
Macworld. 

Mesa Graphics, PO. Box 600, 

Los Alamos, NM 87544, 
505/672-1998 

O Printer Drivers 

Printer Choice for Mac 

MAC DAISY LINK,^ a new member 
of the GDT printer driver family, is a 
single driver that allows any daisy 
wheel printer or properly interfaced 
typewriter to be used w/any Mac. 
User configurable ($82). 

THE PRINT-LINK™ continues as the 
printer-specific family member that 
supports a variety of dot matrix 
printers (9 & 24 pin) & ink jet 
printers. Printers too numerous to 
list ($62). Both install using Cho.ser. 
Mac to printer cable $22.95, LQ 
adapter cable $15. 

GDT Software, PO. Box 1865, Point 
Roberts, WA 98281-1865 

O Project Management 

A£C Information Manager''* 

Powerful, easy-to-use project- 
oriented database designed specifi- 
cally for the design and construc- 
tion industries. A 1 low's project man- 
agers to .schedule, organize and 
track: • Correspondence 

• Transmittals • RFl’s • Revisions 

• Change Orders • Submittals 

• Shop Drawings • Punch Lists 

• Projects. First of its kind! 

AEC Management Systems, Inc., 
20524 Amethyst Ln., Germantown, 
MD 20874, 301/428-3694 

O Programming Tools 

Programmer’s Extender™ 

Compiled libraries speed up Macin- 



tosh application development. Vol 1: 
windows, menus, text edit, scroll 
bars, dialogs. Vbl 2: li.st mgr. support, 
text Si graphics printing & I/O, 
marquee, lasso, zooming, & tiling 
window’s. Avail, for LightspeedC, TML 
I^scal, Si Lightspeed Pascal. $89.95/ 
volume. 

Invention Softtvare Corp., PO. Box 
3168, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, 
313/996-8108 

Extender GrafPak^” 

Compiled libraries for creating pro- 
fessional quality graphs in your ap- 
plications. Line, scatter, bar, column, 
log, semi-log plots. Customizable tick 
marks, plot symbols, grid patterns. 
.Multiple curves Si patterns. Available 
for Tlirbo, Lightspeed, & TML Pa.scal 
$69.95. 

Invention Software Corp., PO. Box 
3168, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, 
313/996-8108 

O Public Domain 

PD Software Club 

We have the best in proven updated 
PD .softw’are. We scour all the na- 
tional and local sources for you. Our 
50 disks contain only current ver- 
sions of ovor 1000 items. $2 gets you 
our catalog & a $2 coupon. $20 an- 
nual membership fee gets you 
monthly newsletters and 2 FREE 
disks of fonts and DAs. Monthly disks 
$6.95, library disks $8.95. Visa/MC 
Tanslatum International, 1730 E. 
OltorfSt. ai27, Austin, TX 78741, 
512/442-0266 

Affordable Mac Software 

Outstanding collection of public do- 
main softw'are covering all topics for 
only $5 per disk. No minimum req. 
Disks are packed to the brim with 
the latest software releases. Double 
sided 800K disks are also available. 
For free membership, bulletins & a 
beautifully illustrated catalog, send 
$1 to: 

MCUS, PO. Box 6963, Dept. 55, San 
Jose, CA 95150, 408/723-3388 

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Choose from our HUGE library of 
1800+ programs, games, DAs, fonts, 
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Send $2.50 for disk catalog & 5 free 
programs! MC/VISA. See display ad 
this issue! 

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The Mac Group 

The best public domain softw’are & 
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• LifeTime Membenship ($15) 

• BlgTime Membership ($72 yr.) 
Includes 2 PD disks monthly 

• Roll-Your-Ow'n PD Catalog ($5) 

• Special Art Set ($50 + $3 s/h) 
Includes 12 Clip Art disks. Send $1 
for catalog. Visa/MC 

The Mac Group, PO. Box 85 152 MB 
231, San Diego, CA 92138, 
619/747-7940 

O Real Estate 

Property Management 

Comprehensive program for manag- 
ing residential and commercial prop- 
erties. Many management reports, 
including operating statement, delin- 
quent rent, lease expiration, and 
transaction register. Provides check 
writing, check reconciliation, post- 
ing late fees, recurring expenses 
-$395. Investment analysis- $245. 
Yardi Systems, 930 Laguna St., 

Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 
805 / 966-3666 

Investment Analysis v. 5.1 

From RealData, the leader in real es- 
tate software. Latest tax reform rules 
incl. in powerful .sensitivity analysis 
for income property. Detailed 10-yr. 
report of income, expenses, financ- 
ing, depreciation, cash flow’s, titx 
consequences (incl. passive losses), 
future value & resale, IRR/FMRR/ 
cash -on-cash/cap. Rate, lease analysis 
Si more. Flexible, easy to u.se. Req. 
Excel,^"^ Works,^"* or Jazz.''"' $195. 
MCA' isa/A mex'COD 
RealData, Inc., 78 North Main St., 
South Norwalk, CT 06854, 
203/255-2732 

The Appraisal Office 

Developed by professional ap- 
praisers just for the Mac. Completes 
the new URAR Residential Form 
quickly & accurately. Menu-driven, 
shows form on screen, performs all 
calculations. Stores, searches, re- 
trieves Si pastes comps to/from data- 
base. Includes billing system. Req. 
Excel^ $395. Also avail. Appraisal 
Office Jr. for forms processing only 
$250. MC/Visa/Amex/COD w’elcome. 
RealData, Inc., 78 North Main St., 
South Norwalk, CT 06854, 
203/255-2732 



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Macworld Directory 



Income Property Analysis 

REMS Investor 2000, the only CCIM 
Recommended Software for the Mac, 
performs multi-year cash flow pro- 
jections, IRK, FMRR. Partial year, 
powerful financing. Fully updated for 
the new tax law. Excellent tool for re- 
altors, bankers, CPAs, investors. Uses 
all Mac interfaces, no templates. 
Demo disk available, 30-day money- 
back guarantee! $395. 

REMS Software, 3860 159th Ave. 

NE, Suite no, Dept. MW-1, Red- 
mond, \VA 98052, 206/883’7000 

Property Management 

Complete manager’s tool for residen- 
tial & commercial properties. Fea- 
tures include full accounting & bud- 
geting, operating statements, & easy 
starting balances; Rental, Repair & 
Tfcnant Managers; auto, rent increase 
& late fees; over 40 reports per IREM 
specs; Personal Investor $595, Pro- 
fessional $1,295. 

MacLord Systems, Inc., 9487 Mag- 
nolia Aw., Riverside, CA 92503, 
7141687-1919 

TRACK^" 

Multi-user database for tracking cli- 
ents & prospects; contact history, 
mail labels & more. Also includes 
electronic index cards, appointment 
calendar, auto-dialer, mortgage cal- 
culator, expense log, tickler & termi- 
nal function. 1 of 8 new products in 
1987. $395. 

Softworks, Inc., P.O. Box 2285, 
Huntington, CT 06484, 
2031926-1116 

FOR SALE"" 

Multi-user farming system for in- 
creased sales and listings. Maintain 
database on all property types in- 
cluding property description and 
o\^’ner. Search by any field; mail la- 
bels; contact history; & more. In- 
cludes appointment calendar, auto- 
dialer, & tickler functions. Great for 
market evaluations! $695. 

Softworks, Inc., P.O. Box 2285, 
Huntington, CT 06484, 
2031926-1116 



LIST"" 

Multi-user property listing system 
maintains listing info for lease & sale 
properties including pictures, keeps 
comparables for CMAs. Search any 
field. Reports & graphs. User- 
customizable. Like having your own 
multiple listing system. 1 of 8 new 
products in 1987, $795. 

Softworks, Inc., P.O. Box 2285, 
Huntington, CT 06484, 
203 / 926-1116 

LEAD"" 

Multi-user management system for 
the solicitation of owners selling 
their own properites. Classify leads. 
Sales forecasts and ^TD reports & 
graphs. Also includes electronic in- 
dex cards, auto-dialer, & tickler func- 
tions. $595. 

Softworks, Inc., P.O. Box 2285, 
Huntington, CT 06484, 
203/926-1116 

MacAppraiser"" 

Easiest and fastest processor on the 
market. Stand-alone program com- 
pletes URAR, CONDO and INCOME. 
Forms excatly duplicated on screen, 
unfilled areas highlighted, word- 
wrap, drawing capability for URAR 
sketch; performs all calculations in- 
cluding .sketch area, batch printing; 
super fast scrolling. Complete U1L\R 
in 15-30 min. $395. 

Bradford and Robbim, 400 East 
Remington, ^B220, Sunnyvale, CA 
94087, 408/746-3988 

O Rental 

The MacLlbrary, Inc. 

'flry before you buy.... low l6-day 
rental rates that apply towards pur- 
chase-no obligation to buy. We offer 
a huge selection of Mac .software. All 
the popular programs plus plenty of 
hard-to-find titles. No fees. Free 
membership. Special discounts for 
rapid returns and FREE gifts for fre- 
quent users. Plus FREE a.ssistance 
HOT LINE. Whatever you’re looking 
for, if it was made for the Mac, we 
probably have lt...at LOW RATES. 

The MacLibraty, Inc., 17280 Neiv- 
hope St. #3; Fountain Valle)\ CA 
92708, 714/957-5767, 800/426- 
2777 (CA), 800/622-4774 (Natl) 

O Restaurant 

Restaurant Management 

Tbtal control for any size restaurant. 
System includes: inventory control, 
menu management, help .screens. 



documentation, hotline support, 
$995. Accounts payable, accounts re- 
ceivable, restaurant payroll, and gen- 
eral ledger. $125. VLsa/MC Demo $25. 
Req. 512E & Omnis3. Dealers invited. 
Money-back guarantee. 

Keller Systems Inc., 105 Narcissus St. 
a 310, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, 
305/833'3358, 800/458-8430 

O Sales/ Marketing 

Market Master for the Mac”' 

Automatic Sales Inquiry Follow-up! 
Enter leads whenever you get them 
and MarketMaster^ contacts the 
right people the right way at the right 
time. Prints letters & envelopes, 
phone lists, .scripts, and NEVER FOR- 
GETS! Easy to learn and use. Frees 
salespeople to SELL and supports 
them to SELL MORE! 

Breakthrough Productions, 10659 
Caminito, Cascara, San Diego, CA 
92108, 619/281-6174 

O Scientific 

Tools for Scientists 

Two low-priced products that en- 
hance the iLsefulness of your Mac. 
Our Scientific Symbols Fonts disks 
contain all the characters in IBM’s Se- 
lectric^“ symbols ball and more 
for $40. The Spectral Analysis pack- 
age provides four basic functions: 
forward and inverse transform, 
power spectrum and autocorrelation 
for $75. 

Probability Distribution, P.O. Box 
27276, Austin, TX 78755^2276, 
512/338-1250 

O Security 

Advanced Copy Protection 

The leading .software manufacturers 
depend on Softguard copy protec- 
tion. Introducing our Protection Kit, 
a complete copy protection system 
that runs on the Macintosh. 

• Stops all copybusters 

• FULL HARD DISK support 

• No .source code changes 

• Compatible with all Macintosh sys- 
tems. Free demo disk. 

Softguard Systems, Inc., 710 Lake- 
way H200, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, 
408/773-9680 



O Statistics 

CLRANOVA 

Analysis of variance program that can 
compute up to a 10-way design with 
repeated measures and unec]ual n. 
Marginal means, plots of intcmc- 
tions, simple effects, range tests, con- 
trasts, and more. Full Mac interface. 
TU'o data editors provided. Can road 
text files w/entries separated by 
spaces, commas, or tabs. $75 + $3 
s/h. 

Clear Lake Reseac/j, 5615 Morn- 
ingside =11127, Houston, TX 77005, 
713/523-7842 

RATS! Version 2.1 

Best-selling econometrics .software 
program. .Now available on the Mac. 
Multiple regre.ssion, including step- 
wise, 2SLS, logit, probit, and much 
more! Forocasting with ARIMA, VAR. 
Exponential smoothing, model sim- 
ulations, support for daily/weekly 
data. $300. VLsa/MC. 512K -t* external 
drive. 

VAR Econometrics, Inc., P.O. Box 
1818, Evanston, IL 60204-1818. 
312/864-8772, 800/822-8038 

O Stock Market 

Portfolio/Market Link 

• Stock Portfolio System, a complete 
portfolio manager, incl. 9 reports, tie 
to Dow Jones or manual update. Han 
dies diversified investments. 

• Market Link, auto fetch up to 120 
quotes up to 8 times in unattended 
mode. Tie to DJ or Source. Bridge 
quotes to Excel. 

Free brochure + 100% rebate offer. 
Smith Micro Software, Inc., P.O, Box 
7137, Huntington Beach, CA 92615, 
714/964-0412 

O Wt»rc/ Processing 

Mac^qn/Equation Writer 

Mac'Lqn is a desk acce.ssory equa- 
tion proce.ssor that lets you include 
complicated mathematical equations 
in your technical documents. 
Maclqn supports integrals, sums, 
products, multiline expre.sslons, 
roots, super-& sub.scripts on the 
same character. Automatic character 
sizing, etc., $44.95 Educational dis- 
count avail. 

Software for Recognition Ibchnolo- 
gies, 55 Academy Dr., Rochester, NY 
14623, 716/359-3024 



330 November 1987 



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With the price of most large- 
screen monitors hovering in the 
$2,000 range, we thought we’d do 
something a little radical with ours. 

Like knock a grand off. 

Ah, you say, but at only $995, 
what can one possibly expect from the 
15" Hi-Top'” Full Page Display (besides 
change back from your thousand?) 

How about everything? 

Start with a unique 
Macintosh'" clip-on connector 
board that’s so easy to install 
you can do it for yourself. In all 
of fifteen minutes. Add dual- 
screen software that lets the 
Hi-Top work in concert with 
your Mac (whether it’s the 
512K, Plus or SE), so you can 
drag windows and palettes 
and desk accessories from 
one screen to the other. 

Hi-Top is a registered trademark et NeliAork 
Specaiies. Inc 

Macintosh is a registered trademark of 
Apple Computer. 



Add screen resolution of 77 dpi 
(with a 720 X 900 display), for crys- 
tal clear viewing from edge to edge. 
And a footprint that takes up only 
two-thirds the space of that other, 
more well-known Full Page Display— 
but adds tilt-and-swivel positioning, 
to boot. 

A warranty, that lasts a full year. 



And a service organization— Xerox - 
that stands behind it. 

All for only $995. 

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what’s the catch? 

The catch is that you’ve got 
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that, the price goes up to $1 ,395. So 
just call (212) 995- 2224 or (415) 
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Benchmark: Mechanical CAD 

Computer Aided Design Report 

CAD/CAM PiihlLshing, Inc., 841 
Ilirqiioise St., Ste. D, San Diego, CA 
92109-1159, 619/488-0533. Single copy 
$11.50; annual subscription $138. 

Dimensions 

\iTsion 1.18. Visual Information. Inc., 
16309 Double Grove, La Puente, CA 
91744, 818/918-8834. 1MB minimum 
memor\'; requires external drive. 
Design Dimensions: Mac Plus and 
M;ic SE version $750, Mac II version 
$1395. Solid Dimensions: Mac Plus 
and Mac SE version $395, .Mac II 
version $1295. 

£Z-Draft 

Version 2.0. Bridgeport Machines, 
Inc., 500 Lindley St., Bridgeport, CT 
06606, 203/367-3651, 800/242-2404. 
Key-di.sk copy protection. 1MB mini- 
mum memory; requires external 
drive; hard disk recommended. 
$2495. 

MacDesigner 

\i*rsion 2.0D. Qise, Inc., The Market 
Place, Manlius, NY 13104, 315/682- 
4000. Key-disk copy protection; in- 
.stalls on hard disks. 1MB minimum 
memory; requires hard disk. $2000. 

MGMStation CAD 

Version 2.09. Micro CAD/CAM, 3230 
Overland Ave. #105, Los Angeles, CA 
90034, 818/376-6860. Key-disk copy- 
protection; installs on hard disks. 
512K minimum memory; requia‘s 
800K of drive storage. $795. 

MiniCad 

Version 3.06. Diehl Graphsoft, Inc., 
8370 Court Ave. #202, Ellicott City, 
MD 21043,301/461-9488. Key-disk 
copy protection. 512K minimum 
memory; requires 800K of drive stor- 
age; Mac Plus and hard disk recom- 
mended. $495. 



VersaC A D/Macintosh Edition 
Version 1.0. Versacad Corp., 7372 
Prince Dr., I luniington Beach, CA 
92647, 714/847-9960. 1MB minimum 
memory; Iloating-point math 
coproce.ssor; hard disk and plotter 
recommended. $1995. 



Pages 122 to 125 

Excel Macro Treasury 

Complete Book of Excel Macros 

Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2600 Tenth 
St., Berkeley, CA 94710, 800/227-0900, 
800/772-2531. $16.95. 

Excel Macros Library 
Que Corp., 7999 Knue Rd., India- 
napolis, IN 46250, 317/842-7162, 
800/428-5331. $19.95; with com- 
panion disk $39.95. 

Microsoft Excel 
\fcrsion 1.04. Microsoft Corp., 16011 
N.E. 36th VC'iiy, Box 97017, Redmond, 
WA 98073-9717, 206/882-8080, 
800/426-9400. 512K minimum mem- 
ory; external drive recommended. 
$395. 

Microsoft Excel with Macros 

Microsoft Pre.ss, 16011 N.E. 36th 
VC-Uy, Box 97017, Redmond, WA 
98073-9717, 206/882-8080, 
800/638-3030 (orders only). $21.95. 



Pages 126 to 135 
Beyond Black and White 

Adobe Illustrator 

Version 1.11. Adobe Systems, Inc., 
1870 Embarcadero Rd., Palo Alto, CA 
94303, 415/852-0271, 800/292-3623, 
800/852-3623 in California. Key-disk 
copy protection. 1MB minimum 
memory; .scanner recommended. 
$495. 



Adobe Separator 
Adobe Systems, Inc., 1870 Embar- 
cadero Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, 
415/852-0271, 800/292-3623, 
800/852-3623 in Cilifornia. Product 
specifications to be announced. 

Cricket Draw 

\fcrsion 1.2. Cricket Software, Inc., 

30 Valley Stream Pkwy, Malvern, PA 
19355. 215./251-9890, 800/345-8112. 
512KE minimum memory; external 
drive and LaserWriter recommended. 
$295. 

LaserPaint 

\i*rsion 1.1. LaserWare, Inc, P.Q 
Box 668, San Rafael, CA 94915, 
415/453-9500, 800/367-6898. Key-disk 
copy protection. 1MB minimum 
memory; external drive or hard disk 
recommended. $495. 

Quark XPress 

Version 1.04. Quark Inc., 300 S. Jack- 
son #100, Denver, CO 80209, 
303/934-2211. Permits three copies; 
512KE minimum memory; requires 
external dri\^ or hard disk; Mac Plus 
recommended. $695. 



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Four of a Kind 

Direct Drive 50 

Jasmine Technologies, Inc., 555 De 
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415/621-4339. 512KE minimum mem- 
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General Computer Corp., 215 First 
St.. Cambridge, MA 02142. 617/492- 
5500. 512KE minimum memory; re- 
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Where to Buy 



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512KE minimum memory; requires 
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Rt)dime Inc., Peripheral Systems Div., 
29525 Chaj^rin Blvd., Pepper Pike, 

OH 44122, 216/765-8414. 512KE mini- 
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Gaieway to the Future 

Netway NIOOOA 

Version 4.0. Tri-Data, 505 E. Mid- 

dlefield Rd., Mountain View, CA 

94043, 415/969-3700, 800/874-3282. 

512K minimum memory; requires 

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$3195.* 



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High Ferfornuiuce 

Consulair MacC/MacC Toolkit 
Version 5.0. Consulair Corp., 140 
Campo Dn, Portola Valley, CA 94025, 
415/851-3272. 512K minimum mem- 
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HyperCharger 020 
General Computer Corp., 215 
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617/492-5500. 1MB minimum memo- 
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Orion SE 

MacPeak Systems, 1201 Spyglass, 
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Prodigy SE 

Levco, 6160 Licsk Blvd. #C-203, San 
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1MB version $1495, 2MB version 
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Radius Accelerator 

Radius, Inc., 404 E. Plumeria Dr., San 
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$995, optional 68881 floating-point 
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Radius Full Page Display 

Radius, Inc., 404 E. Plumeria Dn, San 
Jose, CA 95134, 408/434-1010. 512KE 
minimum memory. $1995. 



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Four-Wall Challenge 

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Solid State 

SemperSoft Modula-2 

\ersion 1.0. Semper Software. P.Q 
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206 Aclus, 72 
678 Adobe Sj.siems. 

SS2 Adobe IS^-stems. 82, 83 
399 AdN'anced Cootx*pi 
Research. Inc., 187 
306 Aldas 14- IS 
227 All.sys.312 
638 AmCid, 278 
204 Ann Arl)or. 70-71 
— AnihmCorpi, 34 
— Apple Compuier, Inc., 8-9, 289 
797 Ashton *nHc. 62-63 
67 Averviniernatlonul. 30S 
716 BDT287 
490 BedeUxh, 36 
627 Berinjt Indastries. Inc,. 100 
373 Best Computer Supplies, 104 
S78 Bible Research Svsicms. 298 
38 BlvthSoftss^e, 28S 
394 Bose. 37 

Bravx) Tbcbnologv. 33 
301 Budgetbx-ie.s. 334 
795 CDA Computer Sales, 332 
604 CE Software. 196-197 
657 CMS, 272 
723 CO-DV-CQ338 
636 COMPL’-TEACH. 20 
— Ca.sad^’t^■are, 60 
607 Central h>int Software. 281 
524 Ceniram, 172-P3 
— Chang Lub.s. 177 
776 a>mpatlble S\.stems Corp . 34 1 
330 awposerw, 279 
722 Q>mputcr Expre.sslons, 259 
271 Q)mputer Friends, 274 
371 Computer ,Mall Order, 212-213 
61 1 &>ral .Software, 250 
384 Cricket Software, 92 
684 Cricket Software, 74-75 



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377 Data Cop\-. Inc., 257 
281 DataViz. hO 
232 Dayna Communications, 39 
443 Designer Pniducis, Inc., 298 
634 Diehl Graphsoft. 268 
562 Diskette Connection. 52 
600 E Machines, 96 
168 E-ZWare, 286 
193 Echo Data Services. 340 
410 Educomp. 280 
676 Ergotron. 335 
312 Fift h GcfXTat ion Systems, 27 1 
683 Firebird Licen.ses. inc.. 293 
445 First Cla.ss IVripheral.s, 188-189 
778 GDTSoftworks. Inc.. 340 
— GE Information .Service's. 24 
791 GW Instruments., 286 
143 General Q>mputer. 25. 26-27 
257 Hares. 282 
530 v6 Design, 195 
272 lam Review. 48-51 
249 Infospliere, 211 
112 .b.smine. 167 
747 .tismine. 18-19 

705 John VC’lley and Sons, 80 
1 1 Kensington, 346 

119 UCie.42 

720 Laser Connection. 53 

706 Liser Connection. 54 

707 Laser Connection. 55 

708 Laser Connection, 56 
793 Laser Connection. 57 
767 La.ser Connection. 58 
652 Letra.set, 222,223 
493 Leva). 275 

238 Lionheart, 78 
— Living Videote.xt, 10 
781 MACROMIND. 297 
397 MSC Technologies. 295 
— Mac Expo, 90-91 



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653 Macropac. Ini’L. 98 
16 Macstore, 306 
470 MacCIiimney. 33? 

— MacConnection, 1 42- 1 43. 

1 44- 1 46. 147 
675 Meta Software. 47 
352 Micah Storage, 299 
796 Micro Sy.stems. 269 
786 Microstore. 202 

774 Microlytic.s. 313 

— Microsoft. I FC-1.4(L41 
470 MicnMc*ch Peripherals, Inc.. 253 
585 MicnHek, 251 
37 Miles Q>mputing, 88 
— Mindsca|x*. 233 
633 NantucKet. 303 
72 Nashoba Sy.stems. 309 
196 National Semiconductor, 94 
727 Network Specialties. 264-265 
366 Network .Specialties. 331 

559 Nonhec^te Software, 106-107 
■'36 Nudata. 310 

13 Odesta. 168 
794 Omnigate. 300 
7 1 8 Open .Mac Systems. 68 
575 Orange Mien I. 294 
754 P.MCTelesy.stems. 288 

775 Palantir. 64 
450 Panamax. 306 

553 IVachtree Software. 81 
4 1 3 Pl-rfecTEK Q)rp .318 
304 FVripIierals Computers and 
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560 Personal Training .Sy.stems. 23 1 
242 Po.sit ire Works. Inc.. 65 

724 P0.SI Craft. Im l.. 203 
21 1 Practical Qimpuier 
Applications. Inc., 6 
434 Pre.sentation Technologies, 77 
77 Proviie. .343 



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4 1 8 Scorpio Sy.stems. 294 

209 .Saitt. Foresnwn and Qmipany. .339 
194 Programs Plus. 84-87 

334 Public Domain Exclunge. The. .305 
785 QuaLstar. 314 
577 Radius. 13 
693 .Safeware. 314 
— S;itori Softwxire. 266 
345 .SensiWe .Software. 270 
743 Signw fX'signs, .35 
266 Silicon Beach .Software. 21 
266 Sillctxi Beach .Softw-are. 23 
789 Software Compliment. 342 

210 Soft ware Vent ure.s. 16 
210 S(Miv. 28 

225 .Stafsoft. .342 

703 Studio Adremsing Art . 3.34 
618 .Sun Remarketing, .338 

— .Supermac, 59. 66. 79 
686 S\.stai. 170 

704 .3COM. 102 
712 .3M. 67.69 
.3.32 T/.Maker. .345 
639 TB.SP.38 

6 TallgraNslechnok^ies. 242-243 
735 Teciuar, 320 
96 Think 11‘chnologie‘s. 7 
176 Thundenvare, 304 
51 TriData, 319 
248 Turner I lall PublLshing, 232 
483 llis.sev. 175 
134 r.SAFiex, 76 
537 I’lMime, 5 
591 Valuel.ine. Inc., 315 
48 VarityiKT. 261 
27 \’elol)ind. 22 
70 Virginia .Systems, .34 1 
439 Warp Nine. .30-3 1 
374 Williams Macias, Inc., 169 
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Business 

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590 ALP Svsiems, 30? 

306 Aldus. H-15 

79"^ Ashton Tate. 62-63 
790 Bra\x> Tecluiology, 33 
— Chang l.al>s, 177 
776 Compatible Systems Corp., 335 
384 Cricket Software. 92 
684 Cricket Software, 74-75 
— GE Information Services. 24 
249 Infasphere. 211 

652 Letrasel, 222, 223 
238 Lionheart, 78 

— Living Vkleoiext, 10 
*^81 MACRO.MIND. 297 

653 Macnjpac. Int’l.. 98 
675 Meta Software. 47 

.Micro Systems. 269 
— .MIcrtxsoft, IFC- 1 , 40-4 1 
633 NantucKei, 303 
72 Nasholxi Systems. 309 

559 Northedge Software. 106-107 
13 Odesia. 168 

794 OmnIgate, 300 
754 PMCTelesy.stems, 288 
553 IVachiree Software. 81 

560 I\.*rst>nal Training .Sy.stems. 231 
242 K>siti\eVii)rks. Inc . 65 

— Satori Strftware. 266 
210 Software Ventures. 16 
225 Stafsoft. 342 
— Supermac. 59, 66. 79 
686 Systat. 170 
96 Think’lechnologies. 7 
51 Tl-IData. 319 

591 \iilue Line. Inc. 315 
46 Zeda>r, 343 

Data Management 
206 .5cius. 72 
678 .Adobe Systems. 44-45 
552 Adobe Systems. 82. 83 
204 Ann Arbor. 70-71 
797 Ashton Hue, 62-63 
306 Aldus. 14-15 
38 Hlyth Software. 285 
— Chang labs. 177 
652 Letrasel. 222.223 
72 Nashoba Sv.stems. 309 
77 Pa>\\ie.343 
639 TB.SP. 38 
70 Virginia S\^tems. 341 

Vt’ord Processing 
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204 .Ann Arbor, 70-71 
790 Bravo Tethnologv, 33 
774 Microlytlcs. 313 
345 Sen.sihle Software. 68 
332 T/Maker, 345 
46 Zedcor. 343 

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249 Infbsphere. 21 1 
119 UCie. 42 
794 Omnigate, 300 
775 Palantir. 64 
304 Peripherals Computers and 
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210 Software Venture.s. 16 
704 3CO.M. 102 

51 TriDaia. 319 

Educational 
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578 Bible Research Svstems, 298 
636 CO.MPU-TEAC1I.’20 
560 Personal Haining Systems. 23 1 

GraphicsT)csktop Publishing 
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227 Alt.sy.s. 312 
61 1 Coral Software, 250 
634 Diehl GrapKsoft. 268 
410 Educamp, 280 
— .Mindscape, 233 
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266 Silicon Beach Software, 2 1 
789 Software Qimplimeni. 342 
703 Studio Advt^nising Art, 334 
734 Zedcor. 46 
791 GW Insirunwnt.s.. 286 
724 Post Craft. Int i., 203 

Personal BusinesivTlomc 
604 CE Software. 196-197 
— GE Information Services, 24 
374 Willlams& Macias, Inc. 169 

Entertainment 
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683 Firebird LIcen.ses, Iikv. 293 
37 .Miles Computing, 88 

21 1 Practical G>mputer 
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266 Silicon Beach Software, 23 
4 1 8 Scorpk) Systems. 294 

Languages/'DevcIopment Systems 
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Utilities 

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607 Central l\>ini Software, 281 
3 1 2 Fifth Generation .Sv.stems, 27 1 
119 LaCie, 42 
653 .Macropac, Int’l , 98 
248 Turner Hall PubiLshing, 232 
374 Williams & Macia.s, Inc.. 169 

Miscellaneous 
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394 Bose. 37 
301 Budgeihyies. 334 
330 Compu.serve, 279 
168 E-Z Ware. 286 
778 GDT Strfiw'orks, Inc, .340 



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560 IVrsonal Ihiining Sy.siems. 23 1 
693 Safe ware, 314 
— Satori Software, 266 
537 I ptinK*. 5 

374 Williams & .Macias, Inc., 169 
— Wing Color, 290 

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Computer Systems 
— Apple Computer, Inc. 8-9, 289 
493 Levco, 275 

727 .Network Specialties, 264-265 
366 Net\vork .Specialties, 331 

Printers 
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271 Ctmipuier Friends. 274 
143 General Computer, 25, 26-27 
720 Li.ser Connection, 53 

706 laser Q>nnection, 54 

707 Li.ser Guinectlon, 55 

708 laser Connection, 56 
793 laser Connection, 57 
767 laser Connection, 58 
575 Orange Micro. 294 
— Supermac. 59, 66, 79 
48 \Urliyper. 261 

Boards 

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432 Custom Memory Systems, 302 
493 l.e\'co. 275 
585 Mienuek, 251 
196 National .Semiconductor, 94 
718 Open Mac .Svsiems, 270 
704 3COM, 102 ' 

Digiiizcrs/Scanncrs 
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585 Mlcmiek.’251 
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413 ll-rfecTEK Corp . 318 
176 Thundenvare. 304 

Display 

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577 ILidlus, 13 
743 Sigma Designs. 35 
600 E Machines, 96 

.Mtxlcms 

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257 Ha\vs. 282 

Hard DiskS'Storage 
638 AmCad. 278 
627 Bering Industries. Inc. 100 
657 CMS, 272 

445 First Class Peripherals, 1 88-189 
143 General Computer. 25. 26-27 
112 jasmine. 167 
747 Ja.smine. 18-19 
119 LaCie, 42 
16 Macstore. 306 

470 Micnuech Peripherals, Inc., 253 
”36 Nudaia, 310 
”85 Qualstar, 314 



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6 Tallgras-sU'chnologies. 242-243 
735 Tl'cmar, 320 
352 Micah Storage. 299 
439 Viarp Nine. 30-31 

Miscellaneous 

373 Best Computer Supplies. 104 
607 Central Point Software. 281 
232 Da\-na GmimunicatkMis, 39 
778 GDT Softwx)rks. Inc. 340 
397 .MSC Technologies. 295 
585 .Microtek, 251 
718 Open Mac Sy.siems, 270 
575 Orange .Micro, 294 
434 Presentation Technologies, 77 
618 .Sun Remarketing, 338 
704 3COM, 102 
450 Panama.x. 306 

® Accessories 

Floppy Dl.sk.v1Ioldcrs 
490 Bedell-ch. 36 
562 Diskette Ginnecikm. 52 
193 Echo Data Services, 340 
210 Sonv. 28 
712 3M,'67,69 

Miscellaneous 

399 .Advanced Concept 
Research. Inc.. 187 

— .Anihn>Corp. 54 

67 .Averv Internatkinal, 305 
723 C0-DV-C0.338 
722 Computer Expres.slons. 259 
443 Designer Pn)ducis, Inc., 298 
676 Ergoiron. 263 
530 I/O Design, 195 
11 Kensington, BC 
470 MacChimney. 337 
786 Microstore. 202 

400 ScanCoFurn. 89 

209 Scon, Fore.sman and Compam. 339 
27 Velobind. 22 

— Wing G)br, 290 

® Mail Order 

373 Best Computer .Supplies, 104 
795 CDA G>mpuier .Sales. 332 
371 Computer .Mail Order, 212-213 
410 Educamp. 280 
2^2 laxi Review, 48-51 
238 Lionhean. 78 

— MacConnection, 142-143, 

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459 MacPruducts U.S.A. 336 
16 Macstore, 306 
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Micinsoft 

Microsoft Works Af/crdsi^r " 

Microsoft Excel iVfterosq)^/ 

SuperPaint Silicon Bead) Software 
PageMaker A/dm’ 

WrlteNotv for Macintosh TlJifdker 
FileMaker Plus Nashoba Sy^ren'is 
MacMoney Survivor Softmire 
Keflex for the Mac Borland International 
MacUfrite Apple Computer 



Education Software 



2 1 MmhVA'ASter Davidson and Associates 

1 2 KiA&'time Great Wave Software 

A 3 Early Games Springboard Software 
4 Masteriype Mindscape 

3 5 Typing Hitor III Simon and Schuster Software 



Entertainment Software 



2 1 Dark Castle Silicon Beach Software 

1 2 Flight Simulator Mcm^q/'/ 

3 3 MacGoU Practical Computer Applications 

4 4 Ferrari Grand Prix Bullseye Software 
5 Dej^ Vii Mindscape 

Networking/Data Communications 

2 1 TOPS Centram Systems West 

1 2 AppleTalk App/c Computer 

3 3 \pp\eShnre Apple Computer 

4 4 MacServe Infosphere 

- 5 PhoneNet Farallon Computing 



Product Watch 




Editors choice: 

Other recent products of particular interest. 

Personal Laser Printer General 
Computer QuickDraw laser printer 

PixelPaint SuperMac Software color 
paint program 

Translink Zefco transputer parallel- 
processing accelerator board for Mac 
SE and Mac II 



Source: Exctusive InfoCorp survey of more 
than one hundred twenty-Jivc Macintosh 
retailers and selected mail order suppliers. 
Covers sales during July 1987. 



* Formerly btmdled ivith the Mac. 



344 November 1987 




44 Absolutely AMAZING word 44 VCtitcNow feds perfect. . . . 

processing program. I It’s hot. Highly recom- 

want it WriteNow! mended.Tliis is THE word 

Robert Fbrras processor to use if you use 

MacTimes ^ Mac.^^ 



John Dvorak, 

San Francisco Examiner 



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This is the word processor 
that we designed and built 
.Macintosh 

Steve Jobs, 

NeXT Inc. 



44 Right now; WriteNow 

comes the closest to 
delivering on the promise 
of (liture word processing.^^ 

Michael Miller, 

InfoW)rld 



44 T/Maker’s WriteNow For 

Macintosh is a polished 
word processor that retains 
the elegance of MacWrite 
but adds features like 
multiple windows, foot- 
notes, multiple columns, 
and a spell checker. 

Dan I^ber, 

MacVlbrld Magazine 



' . . .WriteNow adds up to a 
great new' word processor. 

... its ease of use and speed 
put it w'ay ahead of Microsoft 
Word and MacVCrite for 
most jobs.^^ 

Vicky Jo Varner, 

The MACazine 



Best New Word Processor 
MacUser Magazine 1986 

WritSVoi^ 

FOR MACINTOSH' 

Performance Word Processing for the Macintosh 

To leam more, see your local computer dealer today, or call or wTite to: 
T/Maker Company 1973 Landings Drive, Mountain View; CA 94043 (415) 962-0195 

Suggested retail price of WfiteNow For Macintosh is $175. Runs on any MacitUosb. 

T/i\laker is a regiMered trademark of T/Makr to WrilcNow is a inidcmark licensed to T/.VIakcr Co, 

Macintosh and Mac'Xtitc arc trademarks of ,^lc tompuier. Inc. 

Circle 332 on reader service card 





Macworld World Class Award — Best Input Device 

Turbo Mouse; 
Twice the speed, in 
half the space. 

Finally, a Mouse that's really quick. One that doesn't require a lot of room on your desk. 
One that's easy to use, even on a desk full of papers. TUrbo Mouse from Kensington. 

Tlirbo Mouse turns mouse technology upside down. It puts the mouse ball on top, 
rather than on the bottom like a standard mouse. You move only the mouse 
ball, not the whole mouse. That's why TUrbo Mouse is quicker, quieter, 
and easier to use. 




TUrbo Mouse doesn't get its speed only from this ease of use. It has an auto 
matic acceleration feature that senses the speed at which you are working 
and moves the cursor further when you move the mouse ball faster. 

TUrbo Mouse has two mouse buttons— one for right-handed users and 
another for lefties. And, since it's only 4" x 6", TUrbo Mouse will fit neatly 
at the end of your keyboard. 

For Macintosh’" , Mac Plus, Apple® He, or lie, ask for model 62350. 

For Macintosh SE, Mac II, or Apple lies, ask for TUrbo Mouse ADB, 
model 62352. For more information, or a dealer near you, 
call (800) 535-4242. In NY (212) 475-5200. 



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